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Roslyn’s PRI fined by state

BY N O A H M A N S K A R A state ethics commission last Wednesday censured two North Shore companies that admitted they illegally lobbied Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former state legislative leaders convicted on corruption charges last year.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics ďŹ ned Glenwood Management, a New Hyde Parkbased real estate ďŹ rm, and Administrators for the Professions, a company aďŹƒliated with Roslyn-based Physicians Reciprocal Insurance, for failing to disclose lobbying activities with Silver, the former Democratic Assembly speaker, and providing jobs for Adam Skelos, the son of the former Republican Senate majority leader.

Under settlement agreements with the commission, Glenwood was ďŹ ned $200,000, Administrators for the Professions was ďŹ ned $70,000 and both ďŹ rms acknowledged they used gifts to stay in the good graces Continued on Page 45

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U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) met with cheers from well-wishers after being sworn in as a member of Congress on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

ACT offers retest after losing exams As deadlines pass, 53 students missing scores from test at Roslyn H.S.

BY M A X Z A H N Though many college application deadlines have come and gone, the score sheets for 53 high school students who took the ACT test in October at Roslyn High School remain missing.

ACT announced last Thursday a free makeup exam will be provided to the aected students on Jan. 14. “ACT has worked with the courier service to track possible missing materials, and an extensive search of the test center has been conducted, but the missing answer documents have not yet been found,â€?

ACT said in a statement. “We are taking every possible step to locate the answer

sheets and are hopeful that they will be found soon.�

Scores are usually delivered to students within two to eight weeks, according to ACT’s website.

Tarah DeSousa, the spokeswoman for the ACT, said the testing company had “communicated with impacted students and notiďŹ ed them of the retest date on January 14.â€?

She said situations of this kind have occurred in the past,

but they are rare. “The ACT always arranges for a retest for students impacted by this type of situation,� she said.

The Roslyn school district said in a statement that it was “informed by the ACT test coordinator that all proper protocols were followed on site.�

DeSousa said three packages from the test center were shipped out and received by ACT. Continued on Page 61

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New top cop takes Village to decide over in 3rd Precinct fate of grocery Daniel Flanagan takes reins from John Berry Appeals board to vote on Monday

BY N O A H M A N S K A R

BY M A X Z A H N

Nassau County’s 3rd Police Precinct has a new commanding officer, its third in two years.

Police Insp. Daniel Flanagan took over for Deputy Chief John Berry in the 3rd Precinct’s Williston Park headquarters Thursday following Berry’s promotion to executive officer of patrol.

Flanagan, now in his 27th year on the force, had been the commanding officer of the Baldwin-based 1st Precinct since January 2014. Before that he was commanding officer of the Nassau police academy for about three years.

Flanagan will oversee all operations of one of Nassau County’s largest precincts, stretching from Manorhaven south to East Garden City and from New Hyde Park east to New Cassel.

Flanagan could not be reached for an interview, but Berry, who worked with Flanagan early in his police career, said he will “be a good fit for this precinct, I believe — from one busy precinct to another busy precinct.”

Berry, a 24-year cop, was promoted after about 17 months at the helm of the 3rd Precinct, where he succeeded Deputy Chief Sean McCarthy in August 2015.

He had been a precinct commander since 2010, previously leading the 2nd, 4th and 5th precincts, he said.

Berry will replace McCarthy in his new role as the third-highest officer in the department’s patrol division overseeing all patrol officers in the county’s six police precincts. McCarthy is moving to a new position in the department’s support division, a police spokesman said.

“I had a background of experience to be able to guide my peers in running their precincts,”

A monthslong dispute between Roslyn Village and a proposed organic grocery store that has included a contentious public meeting, threats of a lawsuit against the village and a petition in favor of the store signed by 264 people is exected to come to a vote on Monday.

The Zoning Board of Appeals will likely make a final decision about the store, Full House Organic, at its public meeting at Village Hall at 8 p.m., the store’s legal representative, Ian Poulos, said.

The dispute concerns whether the special use permit for the store, approved by the Board of Trustees on Feb. 16, allows the store to sell prepared foods like rotisserie chickens, grilled vegetables and smoothies, as long as those are made off-site.

“We have high hopes,” Poulos said. “We’re not asking for something we didn’t ask for before.”

The store owners, Judy Racz and her husband, Gavin Racz, on

Monday opened an off-site location in Mineola at which they plan to cook foods that will be delivered to and sold from the grocery store in Roslyn.

Judy Racz said she will not attend the meeting on Monday.

Her legal representatives will handle the proceedings.

“I’m just trying to open up a small market to sell food and they’re making it really difficult,” she said. “I don’t see how selling some prepared foods in a market matters.”

She and her husband sought the special use permit from the village because they wanted to open their store at 10 Roosevelt Ave. in an area zoned for light retail, said Richard Belziti, the Roslyn Village superintendent of buildings.

Poulos and co-counsel David Schwartz on Tuesday submitted a clarification of the store’s request. The clarification lists types of foods, like prepackaged sandwiches and salads, that the store would like to sell under the special use permit.

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Police Insp. Daniel Flanagan Berry said.

As a cost-saving measure, the 3rd Precinct was merged in 2012 with the former 6th Precinct, now known as the 3rd North Subdivision, which encompasses the Roslyn, Manhasset, Port Washington and Great Neck areas.

The precinct includes major traffic arteries, Nassau County’s government buildings, major hospitals and Roosevelt Field mall.

Navigating the precinct’s large size was a challenge, Berry

said, but he tried to maintain open communications with the 26 village mayors in his territory, as well as Town of North Hempstead officials and local civic leaders.

Berry credited the precinct’s officers with driving down crime in the area by 9 percent last year compared with 2015, he said.

Local officials and civic leaders last year called for the county to undo the merger, saying police service had suffered while the stated cost savings were not Continued on Page 50

The property in Roslyn at 10 Roosevelt Avenue where Full House Organic will be located.

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Russians leave U. Brookville mansion Closure of property comes as U.S. forces nearly three dozen diplomats out of the country

BY N O A H M A N S K A R An Upper Brookville mansion owned by the Russian government was closed Friday as the United States government forced nearly three dozen diplomats to leave the country.

The last of the Russians staying in the mansion known as Norwich House left shortly before noon on Dec. 30, Elliot Conway, the Village of Upper Brookville mayor, said in an email.

The 14-acre property was one of two Russian diplomatic compounds the federal government ordered closed Thursday in retaliation for Russian cyberattacks that interfered with the U.S. presidential election. The other is located on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

The orders caused a stir at the usually quiet estate, and at another Russian-owned property in Glen Cove that was first thought to be the one ordered shut.

Upper Brookville, a wealthy village in the Town of Oyster Bay, has “no current village-re-

PHOTO FROM NASSAU COUNTY LAND RECORDS

Russian officials staying in this Upper Brookville mansion vacated it last Friday, as required

by U.S. sanctions against Russia. The nation also owns a mansion in Glen Cove, which has remained open. lated issues with the Russians,” Conway said in the email. “They have been quiet neighbors.”

President Barack Obama’s administration said Thursday it was ousting 35 Russian diplomats and sanctioning Russian government agencies and officials as a response to the theft

and release of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee, part of what the U.S. believes to be a statesanctioned effort to sway the election in President-elect Donald Trump’s favor.

Russia has repeatedly rejected those claims, but Russian

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he will not expel U.S. diplomats from his country, contrary to a recommendation from his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.

In a statement, a U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed the Upper Brookville

property was being closed and said no one will be allowed on the premises without the department’s permission.

It was first reported Thursday that the U.S. was closing Glen Cove’s Killenworth Mansion, the other Gold Coast estate the Russians own. But Reginald Spinello, the city’s mayor, said federal officials told the city police chief that it would remain open.

The Upper Brookville estate on Mill River Road was built in 1918 and purchased by the Soviet Union in 1952, Nassau County land records show. It is valued today at $9.35 million; the house itself has nearly 19,000 square feet of living space and a pool.

A county land sale record for the Upper Brookville house bears the name of Jacob A. Malik, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations from 1948 to 1952 and 1968 to 1976.

In a 1950 photo from the U.S. National Archives, Malik is seen in the U.N.’s former headquarters in Lake Success casting the sole vote against a U.N. Continued on Page 61

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Old Westbury Gardens toasts holidays in style Early 20th-century mansion hosts 2,700 people over Dec.

BY M A X Z A H N

Over the month of December, the rooms at the Old Westbury House were bedecked with Christmas decorations.

Even magnanimous hosts can grow weary this time of year, as holiday visitors fill living rooms and empty pantries.

Not so for the staff at Old Westbury Gardens, an early 20thcentury mansion that welcomed 2,700 community members for a series of holiday events in December.

“The holidays at Old Westbury Gardens are a really special time,” said Nancy Costopulos, the president and CEO of the organization. “We decorate the fireplaces and mantles, put trees and poinsettias in the large rooms and have Santa Claus here during public hours.”

Events kicked off with a fundraising dinner in the mansion’s red ballroom on Dec. 2, when approximately 100 attendees previewed the decorations and donated to help cover the mansion’s operating costs and

preservation, Costopulos said.

The first public gathering, called First Night, came the following evening, when as many as 300 people drank apple cider, ate Christmas cookies and watched a ceremonial tree lighting behind the mansion, Costopulos said.

“I’m grateful the weather cooperated in almost every way,” she said. “It made the First Night evening so much more wonderful for our visitors.”

The next evening, a Sunday, the Gardens held Nannies Night, a children’s event for which volunteers dress like early 20thcentury nannies and conduct arts and crafts workshops in the property’s kitchens.

Over the ensuing weeks, the Gardens held two tea times per day on Mondays through Thursdays, each of which sold out.

Visitors drank tea, ate scones and toured the mansion.

On weekends, the Gardens

welcomed visitors from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to eat cookies, drink cider, tour the property and spend time with Santa Claus.

A chocolate tasting took place on Dec. 9, when as many as 80 people sampled various chocolates and wines.

Costopulos joined the Gardens last December after working as the chief marketing officer at a Chicago-based nonprofit called the American Marketing Association.

“Last year it was such a whirlwind just getting up to speed in the new position,” she said. “There were more events this year.”

Old Westbury Gardens, built in 1906 by English designer George A. Crawley, is the former home of John S. Phipps, an heir to the Phipps family fortune made from the Carnegie Steel Company.

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Sloan Kettering deal at Coliseum done Pact with Nassau County allows construction of outpatient facility, parking garage

BY ST E P H E N R OM A N O Nassau County on Thursday ďŹ nalized the deal for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to construct an outpatient facility and parking garage on a portion of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum land.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced the closing of the $6.5 million, ďŹ ve-acre land deal, which was ďŹ rst agreed on in August 2014. “Memorial Sloan Kettering will build an important care center at Nassau’s Hub for those ďŹ ghting cancer,â€? Mangano said. “This outpatient treatment facility will oer critical cancer care to patients without the wear and tear of traveling to Manhattan.â€?

The outpatient center will employ approximately 250 clinical and administrative workers with an average annual beneďŹ t and salary package of $150,000, a release from Mangano’s oďŹƒce said.

The outpatient center plans include a two-story, 114,000-square-foot facility and a 450-space parking garage.

The parking garage will be accessible at nights and on weekends to Coliseum visitors.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Will open an 114,000-square-foot outpatient facility near the renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. ogy services at the center will include “surgical, medical and radiation oncology consultations, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, diagnostic radiology, access to MSK clinical trials, and other specialized services such as genetic counseling, pain management support, lymphedema therapy, survivorship ser-

vices, social work and nutrition counseling,� a news release said.

Construction will reportedly cost $140 million.

The Hempstead Town Board approved Sloan Kettering’s site plans in August after an environmental review. “Delivering the same high caliber of

care and experience to our patients in their community continues to be a top priority for Memorial Sloan Kettering,’’ a spokesperson from Memorial Sloan Kettering said. “The new Uniondale location will oer cancer patients a more robust clinical program, including the latest treatments, access to clinical trials, and other programs and services that are important to patients and caregivers both during treatment and after.â€?

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is required to pay prevailing wage rates to the labor organizations hired to build the facility or enter into Project Labor Agreements, the release said.

The intent of the project is protected under a stipulation in the agreement that includes “a use covenant and ensures the property reverts back to Nassau County under certain speciďŹ c conditionsâ€? if the project is not used for health care related services, the release said.

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MTA chair Prendergast to step down

BY N O A H MANSKAR Tom Prendergast, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s chairman and CEO, will retire early this year after a 25-year career with the transit agency, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

Prendergast has led the MTA since June 2013 following terms as president of New York City Transit and the Long Island Rail Road, the nation’s busiest commuter rail system. His term as chairman would have expired in 2021.

His departure was announced a day after the opening of the Second Avenue subway line and comes as the MTA plans other major projects, including the LIRR’s proposed third track along a key stretch of its Main Line.

“It’s never easy to leave an organization after 25 years of service, but I do so knowing that the MTA will continue to serve the public so well and that our governor will ensure New York continues to have the most robust transportation system in the country,” Prendergast said in a statement.

Prendergast agreed to lead the MTA for about three years

PHOTO BY KEVIN P. COUGHLIN FOR GOV. ANDREW CUOMO’S OFFICE

MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast speaks at the opening of the Second Avenue subway line in Manhattan on Dec. 31. Prendergast will retire early this year. when Cuomo appointed him, and now has “personal issues and family issues that he needs to deal with,” Cuomo told reporters Monday.

It is uncertain who will replace Prendergast, but Cuomo said he has weeks to find his successor, whom the state Senate must confirm.

“I don’t think you find another Tom Prendergast, but we will be looking for an operator of a

transit system who is an operator, also a developer because a lot of what the MTA does is also build,” Cuomo said.

A Chicago native, Prendergast came to the MTA in 1982 as an assistant director of system safety for New York City Transit, which runs the city’s bus and subway systems.

He became the senior vice president for New York City Transit’s subway department before

taking the LIRR’s helm in 1994.

Prendergast oversaw the MTA’s Superstorm Sandy recovery, leading repair and fortification projects. He also helped develop the authority’s largest capital program ever, a $27 billion package approved last year that includes a $387 million second track along 18 miles of the LIRR’s Ronkonkoma branch.

In his statement, Prendergast also touted his efforts to implement more technology at the MTA. The agency launched a digital LIRR ticketing program last year.

Cuomo credited Prendergast with the completion of the threestop Second Avenue Subway, which opened to the public Sunday after more than a half-century of delays.

Larry Penner, a transportation historian and former Federal Transit Administration employee, said Prendergast brought the MTA billions of additional federal dollars and “never promised what he couldn’t deliver.”

To replace Prendergast, Cuomo would be smart to tap an MTA official, such as New York City Transit President Veronique Hakim, who already knows the au-

thority’s inner workings, Penner said.

“The key thing is to bring a native New Yorker who’s already worked for the MTA for a number of years as president of one of the operating agencies so they could hit the ground running,” he said.

Prendergast and Cuomo’s $2 billion third track plan has drawn skepticism and opposition from residents of the 9.8-mile corridor between Floral Park and Hicksville, who say it would disrupt traffic and hurt their quality of life during and after the three- to fouryear construction period.

But supporters say it would be an economic engine for Long Island and a great help to commuters, especially after the completion of the long-delayed East Side Access project to extend LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal.

Floral Park Mayor Thomas Tweedy, an opponent of the third track project, said that while he never met Prendergast, he recognized his immense responsibility.

“I don’t doubt that it’s an incredibly time-consuming job and certainly those things the governor has asked him to do, he’s promoted and done what he should,” Tweedy said.

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22 make semifinals for H.S. science contest

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Twenty-two North Shore high school seniors were named semifinalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search on Wednesday, more than double last year’s number.

Six students from Great Neck South High School, six from Paul D. Schreiber High School, five from Herricks High School, three from Manhasset High School, one from Great Neck North High School and one from Roslyn High School are among 300 from across the country who qualified as “scholars” in the competition, formerly sponsored by Intel.

Westchester County-based Regeneron, a medical science and technology company, this year took over sponsorship of the contest recognizing top science research projects from high-schoolers around the country.

The 22 North Shore students were picked as semifinalists from among 1,749 applicants based on their promise as scientists, academic performance and recommendations from teachers and other professional scientists, according to a news release from the Society for Science & the Public, which co-sponsors the competition.

The semifinalists include 58 from Long Island.

“We are thrilled to recognize such a variety of scientific achievements and join Regeneron in welcoming these young innovators to the Science Talent Search family,” Maya Ajmera, president and CEO of the Society for Science & the Public and publisher of Science News, said in a statement. “We cannot wait to see where their curiosity and passion takes them.”

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The 300 semifinalists each get a $2,000 award. Forty finalists to be named Jan. 24 will compete for $1.8 million in awards in Washington, D.C., in March, with winners named at a March 14 gala.

The top winner will get $250,000.

Ten North Shore students were among 44 from Long Island who made the semifinals in 2016.

This year’s honored research projects focus on topics in astronomy, biology, medicine, physics and social sciences.

Twenty-five North Shore students, including 15 from Manhasset, made the semifinals of the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology this fall, another major contest for highcaliber science research students.

Natalie Tan of Herricks High School and Jaysen Zhang of Great Neck South High School made the semifinals in both competitions.

The other local Regeneron Science Talent Search semifinalists include Patrick Gao of Great Neck North High School; Lynn Hlaing, Matthew Ko, Olivia Lundelius, Rubin Smith and Yujia Su of Great Neck South High School; Riya Gilja, Michael Lee and Parker Van Roy of Manhasset High School; Alan Chen, Bongseok Jung, Nora Koe and Setu Mehta of Herricks High School; Samantha D’Alonzo, Maria Kogan, Dylan Langone, Michael Nachman, Lauren Seidman and Allison Winter of Paul D. Schreiber High School; and Yena Kim of Roslyn High School.

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From left: Herricks High School seniors Alan Chen, Natalie Tan, Nora Koe, Setu Mehta and Bongseok Jung.

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BY J OE N I K I C Nassau County and the Town of North Hempstead won awards this week for their financial reporting practices.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada gave the county and town’s comptroller’s offices its Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the 2015 fiscal year.

“I congratulate the accounting staff of my office for their expertise and dedication, who every year meet and exceed the highest professional standards in financial reporting,” Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos said. “I am proud that the GFOA continues to recognize their extraordinary efforts in providing to the residents of Nassau County an accurate and timely accounting of how their money has been spent.”

It is the seventh consecutive year the county has received the award for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, while the town received the award for the sixth consecutive year.

“North Hempstead is honored to receive this prestigious Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the GFOA for a sixth year,” Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said. “We

are committed to being open and transparent as well as fiscally responsible. The town is always looking for ways to save money for our taxpayers.”

Town Comptroller Averil Smith said her office was pleased to again receive recognition for its financial reporting practices.

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The program does not assess the “financial health” of a government entity, the website states, but instead ensures financial statements show full disclosure and transparency.

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Academy kids sing for Hanukkah Town Supervisor Bosworth and county Comptroller Maragos among those in attendance

BY J OE N I K I C Dozens of elected officials, local clergy, members of the community and students from the Silverstein Hebrew Academy joined at the Village Green in Great Neck Thursday evening for a Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting.

Chabad of Great Neck, in conjunction with the Silverstein Hebrew Academy, organized the menorah lighting celebration, which featured songs about the holiday, prayer and hot chocolate and doughnuts.

“Hanukkah unites everyone to come,” Rabbi Joseph Geisinsky of Chabad of Great Neck said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or Republican, if you celebrate any holiday.”

“Hanukkah brings the light and wants to bring out the potential of every person,” Geisinsky added.

Chanie Geisinsky, associate head of school at the Silverstein Hebrew Academy, said a lot of the emphasis of the celebration is on

Fourth-graders from the Silverstein Hebrew Academy singing in front of the menorah at the Village Green. involving children. nukkah songs.

Fourth-graders from the acad“Often you have adults doing emy’s student choir performed things with children on the sidetraditional and contemporary Ha- lines,” Chanie Geisinsky said. “We

believe children are our future She said the academy teaches leaders so we put lots and lots of students the “laws” of the holiday, passion and excitement” towards but does so through celebration. their involvement.

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Going from Bushwick to N.S. bookshelves

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Whether it was the police sirens outside his window or the bully down the block, Michael Cascio struggled with fear when he was growing up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, as most children do, he said.

When his father, Santo Cascio, a working-class Italian immigrant, found him afraid, he always encouraged Michael to face his fears head-on, Michael Cascio said.

“He came here with the dream of providing a better life for us,” said Cascio, a New Hyde Park resident. “When these things would happen my father wanted to make sure that we would not go through life challenged because of things that worried us.”

Michael Cascio taught that lesson to his three children by reading them a poem he wrote whenever they got scared, he said.

Now, he hopes to do the same for children across the country with his new book, “When I Was a Child I Was Always Afraid,” an illustrated edition of the poem published Tuesday by Mascot Books.

An accountant with his own Queensbased firm, Cascio got a love of writing from a fourth-grade teacher, he said.

Cascio grew up in a typical Bushwick row house, the son of Santo and Angelina Cascio, he said. He went to elementary school at St. Joseph’s Patron School, where he found himself in Josephine Pilla’s classroom at age 12, he said.

Pilla made Cascio sit in the front row every day and took time to read Dr. Seuss books to him, he said. That was especially important because his family rarely had time to help him improve his reading skills, he said.

“I’ve always esteemed teachers very highly, but she was one of the key people that bumped into my life to make my life ... and eventually my kids’ a lot better because she put me on the right track,” Cascio said.

The poem that became “When I Was a Child” follows a young boy who is afraid of noises he hears under his bed and in his attic until his father shows him that they’re nothing to be afraid of.

Cascio wrote the poem in 2000, when his oldest son, Michael, was in third grade, he said.

When he visited his son’s class at the Manor Oaks School in New Hyde Park that school year, the teacher, Kim Strom-

stedt, encouraged him to read the poem to the class.

Stromstedt was so impressed with poem that she has invited Cascio back to read it every year since, she said. She also connected him with another teacher at the school to help get it published.

In November 2015, the younger Michael Cascio took the poem to his friend and fellow New Hyde Park Memorial High School graduate Bentley Wong, a web designer and illustrator, to create images for the book.

Wong made darker, scarier imagery to accompany the first half of the book and brighter colors in the second half after the boy’s father appears, he said.

“I think it’s a story that any child can identify with,” Wong said. “Every kid at one point has pretty irrational fears and if it’s not specifically a father, there’s always a parental figure there in someone’s life that kind of guides the way and shows the light beyond the trees.”

Stromstedt, now a second-grade teacher at the Garden City Park School, said the story teaches children the importance of taking risks and facing fears, which help foster confidence and growth.

At the Garden City Park School, where 27 percent of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch, children also identify with Cascio’s personal story of his working-class upbringing, so they know he empathizes with them, Stromstedt said.

“It shows the kids that dreams really do come true and ... adults can learn and achieve dreams too, and you’re never too old to learn or do something new,” she said.

Cascio hopes to get the book into libraries and major bookstores, he said. He read it at an event at the Dolphin Bookshop in Port Washington last month that drew at least 70 people, he said.

Cascio has some other book projects in mind, he said. One is a Christmas children’s book also based on his Bushwick childhood. He also hopes to finish his father’s life story, which his father started writing before his death of stomach cancer in 2010.

“The fabric that we’re made of is what we become and, if we’re given a chance to lead our lives in a good way, is what we share with the world,” Cascio said.

“When I Was a Child I Was Always Afraid” is available for purchase on Amazon.com.

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Separate and unequal Many studies have shown that Long Island is one of the most racially segregated areas in the country.

State Education Department statistics show a large disparity between school districts in the money spent per pupil. This disparity corresponds closely to the median income of school district residents, which in turns corresponds closely to race.

In other words, at least when it comes to public education we have a system on Long Island that is for the most part separate and unequal.

There is room for debate over the reasons, but not the outcome.

At a time when many talk about the importance of education in addressing income inequality in this country, public education at the moment does just the opposite. Public schools spend more on children from affluent families than less affluent families with predictable results.

State education officials recently endorsed a $4.3 billion three-year phase-in of school “foundation” aid focused on the needs of poorer districts statewide, including on Long Island, that would address the disparity in spending per students.

The funding proposal would allot a total of $2.1 billion for the 2017-18 school year, which would include $1.8 billion in foundation aid along with increased money for English language instruction, prekindergarten classes and teacher training.

The fate of the package, which was approved by the state Board of Regents, is now in the hands of Gov. Andrew Cuomo

and state legislators.

Candidates for the state Legislature in the recent election talked about bringing more money back to Long Island.

The New York State Association of School Business Officials, an advocacy and research groups headquartered in Albany, estimated that the increase in foundation aid would bring $795 million, or 6.8 percent of the system’s spending among the island’s 124 school districts.

But the spending would vary widely from district to district, depending on relative wealth or poverty.

The result would be an increase in some districts and a decrease in others — unless a “save harmless” provision was included to ensure that school systems receive at least as much state money as they got in the past.

North Shore school districts, which are among the wealthiest in the state, would most likely be among the losers.

So how should our legislators vote?

Politically, this is an easy one. The votes are certainly overwhelmingly behind at least a “save harmless” provision, if not maintaining the status quo.

Economically, this is a much more difficult question.

Do you increase a burden on taxpayers in a state whose taxes are among the highest in the country. Or do you cut other programs? If so, which?

And even if the proposed foundation aid plan is approved a large disparity in spending per pupil will still remain.

This begs the question of

whether New York should, in effect, subsidize a system in which less money is spent on poor students than rich?

The state has already effectively locked in the disparity in spending between school districts with the so-called 2 percent tax cap, which requires school districts seeking to raise taxes more than 2 percent to receive more than 60 percent of the vote rather than the 50 percent for districts within the tax cap. This a high hurdle for any school district seeking to narrow the spending gap.

In the end, Cuomo and state legislators may have little choice but to further address the dispar-

ity in school funding.

Lawmakers first approved the concept of foundation aid in 2007, partly in response to a state Court of Appeals decision in favor of greater school funding for New York City. Distribution of the extra money — which would have amounted to more than $5 billion to the city and $4 billion elsewhere across the state — was halted because of the 2008 financial crash.

The Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a Manhattan-based group, that filed the original lawsuit, has gone back to court to collect the money it says is due, according to a report in Newsday.

In the original lawsuit, the Campaign for Fiscal Equity sought to protect and promote what they called the constitutional right to a sound basic education for all public school students in the State of New York.

The organization successfully argued that the state’s school finance system under-funded New York City public schools and denied its students their constitutional right.

We think a sound basic education for all public school students should be the starting point for all state legislators in this discussion, including those on the North Shore.

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ALL THINGS POLITICAL

How to bring the Islanders back President Elect Donald Trump, like him or not, had an effective campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again.”

Whoever wins the 2017 Nassau County executive election needs to focus on making “Long Island Great Again.”

Poor decisions made by recently indicted Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and the malfeasance of former Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray have allowed the New York Islanders, the soul of professional sports in our community, to slip away.

Bringing the Islanders back would be a big step toward making Long Island great again.

The proposal of building a new arena for the Islanders on the vacant Belmont land is foolhardy. There is no need for an additional indoor arena on Long Island with Nassau Coliseum just

a 15-minute car ride away.

As it stands now, Nassau’s newly renovated Coliseum will have about 13,000 seats, roughly 4000 seats less than Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden.

When it comes to attracting top talent who prefer a larger venue, Nassau Coliseum already has a tough time competing.

The best way for the new Coliseum to thrive is to bring the Islanders back.

In order to entice the current Islander majority owners Jon Ledecky and Scott D. Malkin, to bring the Islanders home, the next Nassau County Executive needs to get creative.

Here are suggestions residents can support, that don’t use our hard earned tax dollars.

1. Offer seat licensing for the first 5,000 seats.

At an average of $5,000 each,

ADAM HABER All Things Political this would raise $25 million, and should go to Ledecky and Malkin as an incentive.

If there is overwhelming demand more seat licenses can be sold. The New York Giants and Jets raised several hundred million dollars doing this.

Nassau County should create an online seat license exchange so the licenses could be transferred.

Charging 5 percent on the buy and sell side would be an additional source of revenue for the county.

2. When the naming rights, recently purchased by New York Community Bank, expire, allow the Islander ownership to participate in the next deal if they sign a long-term lease agreement.

Here is an interesting link to the prices paid for naming rights of stadiums and arenas across the county: http://www.espn.com/ sportsbusiness/s/stadiumnames. html 3. Nassau and Suffolk County, both starved for revenue, should form an online ticket agency for all Long Island venues.

A $3 ticket surcharge, or convenience fee, for Islander games would raise roughly $1.5 million

per year. The Islanders could split this with Nassau.

The newly renovated Nassau Coliseum will have a seating capacity for hockey of 13,000.

Though it will be the smallest arena in the NHL, it’s a perfect fit for the Islanders, as they have been averaging fewer than 12,800 for home games this season.

Therefore, when filled to capacity, the new arena will make for an intimate and exciting experience.

Simple supply and demand should make the Islanders a sought after ticket.

The aforementioned ideas will more than compensate ownership for the smaller arena.

For the newly renovated Nassau Coliseum to be a destination and a success, the return of the Islanders is a big part of the winning formula.

PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Reform Electoral College, don’t abolish There is no question that the will of the majority was thwarted in the presidential Election of 2016 — but if ever there was a time when the Electoral College should have proved its purpose, it was this election.

Instead, the Electoral College demonstrated the worst of all anti-democratic worlds: denying the popular will while also enabling the exact sort of candidate that Alexander Hamilton described in justifying the Electoral College: so “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications,” and to prevent a “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.”

Trump fails on all accounts.

And here, you have not only Hillary Clinton receiving nearly 3 million more votes than Donald Trump — the most in history for any candidate who did not go on to win the presidency — but you have clear evidence of foreign manipulation (the Russian hacking, very possibly with collusion by the Trump campaign), fake news, not to mention voter suppression (interesting that every battleground state where Clinton lost was also where Republican legislators had imposed measures designed to suppress the vote of groups inclined to vote Demo-

cratic; in Wisconsin, 300,000 registered voters lacked the photo ID necessary to cast their ballots.

On Election Day, there were 868 fewer polling places in states with a long history of voting discrimination, like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina,” according to the Nation.

The result was that Democratic-leaning voters had hourslong waits which many could not stand.

And then there was the callout by Donald Trump for vigilantes to police “you know which” neighborhoods.

Turnout was affected.

Indeed, despite historic levels of engagement in Election 2016, the number of votes cast in Ohio was down 1.1 percent and down 4 percent in Wisconsin — more than the margin of victory for Trump. That’s the art and the science of voter suppression, which was the primary strategy for the Trump campaign.

But instead of serving properly as a check-and-balance, everything that is undemocratic and archaic about the Electoral College (devised to give disproportionate power to slave-holding states and small rural states) was in play.

As a result, a single voter in Wyoming is worth 200 times a voter in California, rendering this country’s notion of “one person, one vote” and “equal justice” a

KAREN RUBIN Pulse of the Peninsula fraud.

Its malfeasance justifies the rising calls to abolish the Electoral College altogether — which would require amending the Constitution which is unlikely.

Instead, there are calls to dramatically reform it to more properly address 21st century America, through changes that the states can make to the regulations that bind their Electoral Voters, now termed “faithless” if they vote against their state’s popular vote.

The predominant reform is for states to join the National Popular Vote Compact, which would require participating states to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote.

It wouldn’t take effect until

enough states joined in to add up to the 270 electoral votes required to elect the president.

Ten states and the District of Columbia have already signed on, totaling 165 electoral votes.

But this election also demonstrated how easily even a 21st century populace can be manipulated by fake news, social media and a populist snake-oil salesman, not to mention the possibility of hacking the election architecture.

Indeed, it would seem that the Electoral College does have a purpose as envisioned by the founders of the Republic, as a check on populism.

Still, there are ways to make the Electoral College more democratically representative, while still functioning as a “check and balance.”

First, there needs to be an end to “winner take all” which basically erases the votes of millions of voters. Instead, states should apportion their electoral votes based on the popular vote in the state.

That would be a much more representative method and more efficiently make each state and each person’s vote count.

During this election, we kept hearing how discouraged and disaffected those who would vote for third-party candidates, and their complaint that the two-party sys-

tem is what is so detrimental to a true democracy.

But multiple candidates virtually guarantee that the winner does not represent the majority, as is clear in 2016, where the scant votes for Jill Stein in Michigan gave the state to Trump, putting him over the electoral top despite winning only 46 percent of the national popular vote.

So the second element is to allow the lowest vote-getting candidates to give their electoral votes to one of the top two candidates.

Another idea which would be very possible in the age of sophisticated electronic voting, is for “second choice” weighting, and if no candidate gets 50.1 percent, then a run off of the two top vote getters (as is the case in some primaries).

The end to “winner-takes-all” and allocation by popular vote in a state could not happen until virtually all the states (and not just blue states or red states which have voted for a Democratic president) have approved the policy.

None of this will happen because the Republicans have realized they can keep power without ever having to worry about the demographic shifts and pesky things like needing a majority.

Putting a gate at the ballot box has worked very well.

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ON THE RIGHT

Sewer lease plan: too heavy a cost With the federal indictment of County Executive Ed Mangano and Nassau’s protracted fiscal crisis, the Republican Party will have to flim-flam voters this year to renew their lease on County Hall in the November election.

One such scheme they might attempt to hatch is a long-term lease of Nassau’s waste water assets to a private party.

GOP hacks and those who rely on them for commissions, fees and deals might pursue this deal because they believe that the up-front money would be “revenue” that could help them balance their operating budgets; however, even that thought is flawed, as any such up-front funds are likely to be only available in small chunks over the life of the arrangement according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

This deal wouldn’t do anything to end the current abdication of financial control by elected officials to an unelected fiscal control board.

To rationalize this scam, county officials have pointed to

Bayonne, N.J., a city that consummated a similar deal in 2012 with the investment banking firm, Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts to manage its municipal water works.

They have alleged this partnership has been a great success story and the city and its citizenry have reaped significant benefits.

However, a December 24, 2016 New York Times expose — “In American Towns, Private Profits from Public Works” — revealed that while deals “like the one with Bayonne help financially desperate municipalities to make much needed repairs, they can come with a hefty price tag — not just to pay for new pipes, but also to help the investors earn a nice return...”

The Times also disclosed that such contracts “can send water bills soaring.”

And that’s exactly what happened in Bayonne.

To sell the K.K.R. proposal to the public, Bayonne officials promised a four year rate freeze and boasted they would get $150 million upfront (“free money”) to buy new pipes, to pay off debt

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right and to offset future rate increases.

It was all (pardon the pun) a pipe dream.

Unexpected infrastructure upgrades, decline in water usage, and annual financial returns to investors of 8 percent to 15 percent pushed up water rates 28 percent and “far exceeded that of three other municipalities to which Bayonne has compared itself.”

Because the four-year freeze never materialized, angry voters turned out of office Mayor Mark Smith, who admitted to the Times

that Bayonne’s water rates are now “exorbitant.”

If the Nassau GOP’s “Hail Mary” pass to save their political hides is to clone the Bayonne deal, sewer ratepayers should be prepared for similar disastrous results.

Ratepayers must understand that first and foremost there is no “free money” in this type of public–private partnership.

Upfront cash received by the county is actually borrowed money. And investors in this form of back–door borrowing expect annual returns of 8 percent to 15 percent on the money they loaned to Nassau during the 50-year life of the agreement.

To achieve those investment returns, sewer rates would have to be raised significantly year in and year out.

In other words, the next two generations of Nassau residents would be paying ever increasing toilet flushing taxes so that the county could receive “one shot” dollars to plug the deficit hole in current operating budgets.

What’s more, before any pro-

ceeds could be funneled into the operating budget, the costly funds would have to be utilized to pay down low interest tax-exempt county and sewer debt.

This would be like drawing down the credit on your Visa card at 18 percent per year to pay down your home mortgage which has a 4 percent annual interest rate.

That’s just crazy!

The winners in such a deal would be the investment bankers and lobbyists, who would receive millions in commissions and fees and supportive pols who would receive campaign contributions.

The big losers would be ratepayers.

Not only would their sewer payments increase, they would now be fees, not property taxes, and would no longer be deductible on their income taxes.

If Nassau’s sewage treatment revenue stream is leased to wealthy Wall Street investors, voters should follow the lead of Bayonne’s residents, and oust proponents from office this November.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Classics for new year, new generation When Carrie Fisher passed away, two days after Christmas 2016, I realized I had to create a whole new category of film.

Because sometimes, whether you were particularly a fan or not, a work of art can influence so many people at the same time that it actually structures public understanding. It becomes a kind of utility — like electricity, or the internet — that we all can share.

“Star Wars” was that kind of film.

Consider that almost 400,000 people in England and Wales give “Jedi” as their religion.

At first, I thought it was a joke.

But then I realized that Jedi knights are not so different from Camelot’s Knights of the Round Table — or Japan’s samurai swordsmen.

All dedicated their lives to discipline and a code of honor that was bigger than themselves.

And Star Wars tops them all, since it features light sabers — irresistible to my two young boys!

In addition, the Force has a kind of magic that you can call on when you’re in trouble, or look to

for guidance. It’s certainly better than the internet, which will give you fake stories as happily as real ones, with no guidance between the two.

Add to this an adventure with the highest of stakes — an Empire! a universe! — and a love story, and you get … a classic.

You also get a princess who is a strong character in her own right.

When Luke Skywalker comes to rescue this damsel in distress, she wisecracks, “Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”

This line, whether written by Carrie herself or not, is perfectly in keeping with the woman and author that she became.

“Casablanca” was a classic for my parents’ generation. I insisted my college boy sit and watch it with me, last year, before he went to Morocco.

“What’s it got to do with Morocco?” he wanted to know. “Did they film it there?”

“No… as a matter of fact, I don’t think they ever left California.”

“Why do I have to watch it then?”

JUDY EPSTEIN A Look on the Lighter Side “Because whenever you tell anyone you’re flying to Casablanca, they’re going to say something like ‘We’ll always have Paris,” and you won’t know why unless you see this movie.”

“Why would they talk about Paris when Casablanca is in Morocco?”

“Just watch this with me, and you’ll see.”

Soon, we were fully engaged in catching classic lines: “Play it, Sam.” “Here’s looking at you, kid.” “We’ll always have Paris.”

“Round up the usual suspects!”

My favorite scene is still the perfect crystallization of official hypocrisy: Casablanca’s police chief, Captain Renault, closes down Rick’s place because: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”

Just then, the croupier hands him something: “Your winnings, sir.”

A classic for my own generation was “The Wizard of Oz,” which the college boy also condescended to watch with me.

It was great, after all the bullying that went on this election cycle, to once again see Dorothy bop the Lion on the nose when he goes after her dog Toto — stopping the Lion in his tracks and revealing him for a Coward.

Most important, to me, was the climax, where Dorothy and her crew are confronted by a ball of fire — “I am Oz, the Great and Terrible” — who denies all their heartfelt requests. That is, until Toto runs over to a curtain and pulls it aside, revealing a very fallible man at the switches.

Oz continues: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

But of course, that’s just what they do. “You’re a very bad man,” says Dorothy.

“No, I’m a very good man,” he replies. “I’m just a very bad wizard.”

And this, I realize, is what helps me every time someone in authority disappoints. Maybe they aren’t all bad; maybe they are good men and women who are just very bad wizards. At least, that is my hope.

I turn to my son. “So did you learn anything?”

“It explains a lot.”

“You mean, about the world?”

“No, about you. I get it now, when you say ‘We’re not in Kansas any more!’ ” As for me, I have one final realization.

Even more than Princess Leia, Judy Garland’s Dorothy is the feistiest hero of all!

All alone, with no love interest in sight, she kills two Witches and saves nearly everyone else in the story — including the Wizard!

Now that’s a classic.

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READERS WRITE

Ills of globalism, Dem policies are real

I

was made aware of a recent “hullabaloo” over a recent letter by one John O’Kelly by several people.

This week, he explains that it was the Great Neck News which inferred some “Christian” victory in the election of Donald Trump, rather than Mr. O’Kelly.

I did find his idea that only personalities with Jewish surnames were worthy of mention in his letter disturbing.

On balance, however, having read his retort in its entirety, I offer the following, as Jew, by the way: Globalism is a very bad phenomenon for Jews. Its hostility

towards Jewish safety is best exemplified by the UN, itself the worst international investment ever made by the US. Brexit was a good omen for British Jews — perhaps they will have that many less radical Muslim persecutors in Britain (as for Belgium, France, Germany and so many others — too late — even with potential electoral surprises on the way).

Rabbi White is an interesting fellow. He’ll censor Mr. O’Kelly, Pam Geller, Steve Emerson and all kinds of people, but break bread with questionable “interfaith” partners from an infamous Brotherhood (including people from an institution

who blamed 9/11 on the Mossad and CIA, which sought to “shame Islam”); utilizes sermons for political attacks rather than religion; falsifies the meaning of “tikkun olam” through exaggeration and expansion of a term that calls only for world improvement through God’s sovereignty; and generally has more liberalism in his Judaism than Torah.

Not that I am such an angel, but I don’t use my faith to justify my politics.

George Soros is evil personified.

This entire newspaper would be insufficient to begin to touch

upon the damage he does to this nation, Israel / the Jewish people, currency manipulation, his unique and ugly view of the Holocaust where should I even begin?

The Jews blindly vote 75 percent for Democrats and will likely continue to do so even if Farrakhandisciple Keith Ellison is successfully moved to DNC chair by Chuck Schumer, Alan Dershowitz’s threat to leave the party notwithstanding.

This is a Jewish social and political pathology which I detailed several months ago in this publication.

But there is a God. How else to explain the benevolence of Donald Trump towards

Israel in the wake of such limited Jewish support for him?

I hope my fellow Jews are reflecting on where we would be in the wake of the Obama administration’s engineering of the illegitimate Resolution 2334, which is, in fact, a nullification of Resolution 242 — which was the only UN map ever to a possible peace — if the Democrats were coming back to the White House.

Ergo, when I look at the two sides here, I stand with John O’Kelly.

Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld Great Neck

Globalism a threat to Western Civilization

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am writing this letter in response to the many letters of the past two weeks criticizing Mr. John O’Kelly.

To clear the air, I am a proChristian Jew. I find most Christians to be wonderful people and I am proud to befriend them. I also believe there is a tremendous amount of hate in this country for Christians by the progressive left.

In this, Mr. O’Kelly is correct.

The separation of church and state is now used as an excuse to attack Judeo-Christianity.

Time and again we have seen outrageous court decisions uphold this attack. The courts have disallowed the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings.

It has stopped prayer in school, even if non-denominational.

They levy unconscionably huge fines ($50,000) on small Christian bakeries for not wanting to partake in a homosexual marriage ceremony. Show me one instance of them bullying a Muslim bakery that holds the same beliefs.

In the most outrageous decision, the courts allowed the progressives to break the crosses off war memorials commemorating men who actually wore those crosses as they gave their lives fighting people like Hitler.

Can you show me a more deliberate display of “progressive” ingratitude than that?

Separation of church and state has become a weapon to run Judeo-Christian heritage out of the public square and leave atheistic, socialist philosophies as the only remaining occupant.

View some Dennis Prager videos on Prager University for more of this.

I do not believe in the Roth-

schild conspiracy theories.

Most central bankers are not Jewish. But Mr. O’Kelly is correct in another way.

I agree that there are globalists with a desire for one world government. I find their actions to be malignant.

The globalists in government positions collude with central banks to promote their agenda.

They have destroyed the purchasing power of the world’s currencies and have built up criminally negligent amounts of debt.

George Soros is the most prominent of the globalists.

Globalist policies intend to destroy nation states and not incidentally, to destroy Western civilization.

Multiculturalism and diversity are just euphemisms to destroy western values.

What is the motive? Some of it is old-fashioned power lust.

Some is a warped utopian vision that if they can make people give up their ethnic identities, we will all live like a loving family.

Some of it is pure destructive impulses, the dark part of human nature.

Some of it is a misplaced guilt and self-hatred induced by leftists to undercut the pride of Europeans and their descendants.

Soros himself is an anti-Semite.

He changed his name from Schwartz. He took part in the Nazi eviction of Jewish families from their homes and their subsequent confiscation.

In one of the most evil statements I have ever heard, Soros had the “chutzpah” to defend his actions by saying “if I did not do it, someone else would have.”

I have never heard anyone criticize this ghastly statement. So

I will.

This could be the excuse of any evil-doer who was ever under duress. We celebrate the heroes who resist intimidation, not the cowardly who submit to evil “because someone else would have taken my place if I did not do it.”

The Nazi death camp administrators could have used the same excuse.

Soros has no sense of personal moral character. He justifies expediency, not morality.

I have often heard the excuse that Soros was only 14 years old.

Well there are other stories of other 14 years olds in the same place at the same time. They were religious yeshiva boys.

The Nazis marched them towards an open pit. Rifle butts were smashed against their heads.

They fell to ground; bleeding.

Their skullcaps were knocked off.

Do you know what they did? They got up, put their skullcaps back on, and continued marching forward.

Again; smashed in the head; knocked down; skullcaps knocked off.

Do you know what they did?

They got up again, replaced their skullcaps, and continued walking.

Eventually they stopped at the edge of the pit where they were then executed. They stood up for their beliefs till the very end.

They were 14-year-old boys too. With a hell of a lot more moral fiber than George Soros.

So I do not want to hear any more sheep-like bleats that poor George was only 14 years old.

Soros funds hate groups like Moveon.org and Black Lives Matter.

He wholeheartedly supported Chavez in Venezuela. How did that work out?

Venezuela went from the

wealthiest country in South America to a seething pus pit.

Wikileaks illuminated a scheme by Soros in which he intended to form a disinformation group that would defame Israel.

He calls his society the Open Society Institute for a reason. He intends to destroy nation states by opening them up to anyone to immigrate, even to those who profess a hatred for the host country.

One hundred years ago, in World War I, four empires were destroyed at a great expense of human life, so people could have nation states to reflect their own values, culture and language.

The modern day globalists intend to subjugate people the same way. It is a new version of cultural imperialism and empire building.

By the way, Hillary Clinton, during the campaign, called for open borders.

I guess the destructive experience within Germany and France, with their phony refugees, isn’t enough to deter someone when they are insistent on being a dedicated globalist.

Most of those refugees are single men. Why are they not in their own countries fighting for the decency and justice they supposedly claim to desire?

In the same refugee camps they share with Christians, they physically assault Christians and tear up their bibles.

The Christians are the true refugees fleeing danger. Most of the other refugees are not even Syrian refugees.

Probably 75 percent of them are from North Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.

To repeat myself, immigration is being used here as a weapon against western countries to destroy their culture.

Globalists and Progressives wish to foist their cultural imperialism on other people.

Do you think it is an accident that Angela Merkel is a socialist?

While somewhat off topic, another point I would like to make is particularly aimed at the rabbis who saw fit to write letters regarding Mr. O’Kelly.

The Roslyn Times has published numerous other articles by “progressives” comparing Trump to Hitler. You folks out there, who authored these letters, know who you are.

I did not see one rabbi remonstrate against any of these letters.

Why not? My contempt for progressives is well documented and I would have expected the rabbis to be just as offended as I was. None were. This is a moral disgrace.

If I am wrong, show me the disputation.

By calling Trump a “Hitler’ the progressives are diluting the horror of what the Hitlers of the world really have done and do now.

The progressives counterfeit a monstrous and massive evil for their own petty agendas and their own self-inflated egos.

This dilutes and enfeebles the criticism of truly evil men.

Dear rabbis, the progressives are not your friends.

They are moral relativists and thus, your enemies.

You are supposed to be scholarly.

Then let us see some criticism of the progressives that so richly deserve it.

You have the religious texts to refer too. So go to it.

Dr. Wayne Roth Roslyn Heights

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Public better served confronting bad ideas

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e “Trump, Soros and the news media” (Port Washington Times, Dec. 30): At the risk of giving further undeserved attention to John O’Kelly’s anti-Semitic views, I feel compelled to respond to his latest letter in which he endeavors to defend the indefensible.

First, he blames this newspaper for the headline claiming Donald Trump’s victory as a victory for Christians, as though there were no basis in his letter for that headline.

In fact, I counted at least four assertions by Mr. O’Kelly that the opposition to Mr. Trump was “anti-Christian” and two more referencing the Christianity of Mr. Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Sounds like a call for a victory lap for Christianity to me.

Second, he accuses the letter writers who responded to his initial screed (one of which was the undersigned) of engaging in ad hominem attacks, as if this somehow excused his recital of age-old anti-Semitic tropes about “Rothschild bank-

ers,” “anti-American globalists” and “the bankers’ plan for an international, atheistic, totalitarian world order,” among others.

His words sound as if they were lifted right out of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” that infamous antiSemitic tract initially published in the Russian Empire to incite pogroms against Jews and published by Henry Ford in America and by the Nazis to stir up anti-Jewish sentiment.

Finally, Mr. O’Kelly seeks to cloak his bigotry with the

mantle of “populism,” as though that somehow gives him license to utter the most virulent anti-Semitic slanders.

As I wrote before, there can be no mistaking Mr. O’Kelly’s meaning, nothing less than thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

That said, I agree with Mr. O’Kelly that the First Amendment allows him to voice his offensive beliefs and Blank Slate Media to publish them.

As the publisher states in his editorial, “we are better served by confronting ignorant or hateful ideas than pretend-

ing they don’t exist.”

Now that Mr. O’Kelly’s critics have confronted his bigotry, the time has come for Mr. O’Kelly to take to heart their criticisms instead of attacking them.

There is no place for prejudice in our society.

Jay N. Feldman Port Washington P.S. Thank you to Blank Slate Media for providing a forum in which bigotry can be openly addressed.

Bible makes clear Israel’s right to Jerusalem

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he world is over occupied with Jerusalem.

The United Nations Security Council, addressing the Egyptian-proposed resolution 2334, which the Americans from Obama and Kerry helped to draft in secret meetings with the Palestinians was an American betrayal of their good friends and allies in Israel.

The American administration will deny it in order to save face.

But the incontrovertible evidence proves 100% that the hand of Obama helped to write the anti-Israel resolution.

In gematria, the numbers 2334 add up to 12, significantly the exact number of the ancient tribes of Israel.

It is time to give the ObamaKerry gang a brief lesson in Bible study.

1. The name Jerusalem appears 750 times in the Hebrew Bible.

2. It appears 146 times in the Christian New Testament 3. It does not appear anywhere in the Muslim Koran.

4. It appears as the name Zion 206 times in the Hebrew Bible 5. It appears more than 4000 times in Rabbinic and Talmudic literature 6. It appears hundreds of times in the Hebrew daily prayer-

book, the siddur.

7. Absolutely nowhere does it appear in Muslim religious literature.

Jerusalem was conquered from the Jebusites about the year 1,000 BCE by King David who made it his royal capital.

Following David’s death his son Solomon became king and built the first Holy Temple to the One True God of Israel on Mount Moriah, the holy place where Abraham was commanded by God to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice.

Three thousand years before the foot of a Christian or a Muslim touched the soil of Jerusalem, it was the sacred city and only place of worship for the Jewish nation.

Destroyed by the armies of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, in 586 BCE, the Jews were driven into captivity and exile.

And there they wept when they remembered Zion.

I suggest that the ObamaKerry gang open up their bibles and refer to chapter 137 in the Book of Psalms. The Jewish captives wrote this song: “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and cried as we remembered Jerusalem. We hung our harps on the willow trees along the rivers.

There, the people who captured us made us sing and play happy

songs upon our harps. ‘Sing Jerusalem’s songs for us’ they commanded.

We answered ‘how can we sing God’s songs in an alien land?’

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you; if I do not raise Jerusalem’s memory up above my greatest joy.

O God, remember the day of Jerusalem’s destruction; punish the wicked who say ‘Destroy! Destroy it completely!’

O wicked people, soon you will be captured; praised is the one who will punish you the same way you treated us. Praised be the one who will destroy your offspring against the rock” We mourned for the destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and years later by the armies of Rome in 70 CE. In our religious tradition we recall the destruction of our holy temples on a Fast day of the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av. It is told that one day the Emperor Napoleon was passing a synagogue in Paris and he heard the weeping and wailing of the Jewish congregants .

He asked the meaning of it.

One of his adjutants explained, “Your Majesty, it is the cries of the Jews who mourn for the de-

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struction of their holy temple in Jerusalem..”

And Emperor Napoleon replied “A people who remember their holy city for two thousand years will be privileged to return and to rebuild it” And Mr , Obama and Mr. Kerry, we did indeed return beginning in 1882 and we began the rebuilding of Mother Jerusalem.

In 1948 after our independence from the British Mandate, Jerusalem was invaded by the mighty forces of the Jordanian Legion.

They occupied East Jerusalem which contained all of our holy sites, in particular, our Western Wall, the last remaining wall of Herod’s rebuilt temple. For nineteen years the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem was in Arab hands and Jews were denied access to their holy places.

The ancient synagogues were burned down by the Jordanians in an effort to demolish all traces of Judaism in the Old City.

But in a miraculous victory of the Six Day War in 1967, the brave soldiers of Israel captured the Old City and eastern Jerusalem and it was united with the Jewish occupied western part of the city.

Jerusalem was now a united city under Israeli control.

And whether you like it or not, Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry, it

will always be Jewish Jerusalem, capital of our sovereign nation.

We shall never negotiate its division.

And if it means that the Palestinians will not make peace with us, so be it. The status quo can remain.

But Jerusalem will never again be an Arab city.

So I suggest to you and to your associates to review the thousands of references in Scripture declaring Jewish ownership of Jerusalem.

Your proposed legacy to enforce your will upon us will fail.

The God of Israel who has watched over us and who gave to Abraham and his children the land of Israel, will continue to inspire Israel’s modern Maccabees to destroy our enemies and to preserve the sanctity and holiness of Jerusalem where all people of goodwill can worship freely in their synagogues, churches and mosques.

The ancient cry “L’shana ha ba’a b’Yerushalayim”… next year in Jerusalem has been fulfilled.

We are here and here we shall remain for all eternity.

It is God’s will in the Bible that you read.

Esor Ben-Sorek, Ph.D. Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 20

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Dems must oppose Trump at every turn

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he days of wine and roses are gone and we are faced with a new reality.

America must endure four to eight years of what will be the worst presidency in recent times, maybe in our history.

The Democrats have two choices.

They can tuck their tails between their legs or they can stand up on those hind legs and bellow.

We have all heard the argument that we should be conciliatory and maybe, just maybe, Trump will show signs of rationality.

But why would someone whose previous behavior is best described as disturbed, defensive and egocentric suddenly change his stripes?

I have a pugnacious nature and am committed to making the fight.

In Roman mythology there is a story about the forces of good engaging the forces of evil in a battle in which it is foreordained that evil will triumph.

In spite of this predicted outcome, the “good guys” engage because they can do no other.

So, to all citizens of good conscience, there is something to be said for “doing the right thing” no matter what.

If nothing else, you can feel good about the stance you took.

Teddy Roosevelt was a fighter who argued that we must enter the fray.

“...credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; ... who spends himself in a worthy cause; ...and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

But let us see why those who hold out hope for a new Trump are dead wrong in their assessment.

Here are some of the folk Trump has chosen.

Stephen Bannon (who does not need Senate approval) is the former chairman of Breitbart News.

He will serve as Trump’s chief strategist.

Bannon chose not to send his daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy because there were too many Jews in attendance.

He also argued that he admires women like Anne Coulter and Michelle Bachman because they aren’t “a bunch of dykes that come from the Seven Sisters schools...”

What kind of “strategic counsel” can we expect from the likes of Bannon?

Jeff Sessions is most likely our next Attorney General.

An enemy of civil rights and women’s rights he has said: “I don’t characterize” grabbing women by the genitals “as sexual assault.”

He also voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act as well as opposing bipartisan legislation to curb sexual assault in the military.

Steve Mnuchin, nominated as Secretary of the Treasury, foreclosed on more than 36,000 homes in a fashion that a federal judge described as “harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive.”

The former Goldman Sachs executive is on record as attacking the Dodd Frank Wall Street reforms reining in big banks.

Wilbur Ross, a Wall Street billionaire has been nominated as our next Secretary of Commerce.

Known as a “vulture investor,” and “the king of bankruptcy,” he has off-shored American textile jobs to China and Mexico.

Myron Ebell is Trump’s candidate to head up the Environmental Protection Agency.

He views global warming as a pretext for the expansion of government and urged the Senate to reject the international climate agreement signed in Paris.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn will be the president-elect’s National Security Advisor.

In 2014, he was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency where he was considered “volatile” and “unbelievably arrogant.”

So much for “making friends and influencing people.”

Flynn also shared an antiSemitic tweet which he later de-

leted, but this will not affect anything since he, too, does not need Senate approval.

Finally, there’s Betsy DeVos our soon-to-be Secretary of Education.

Never having taught or been a school administrator makes her eminently qualified for this post.

She is a staunch supporter of charter schools which, often as not, are inferior to public schools in spite of their not having to accept all students as do their public counterparts.

She favors vouchers for private schools and claims that public education is failing.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, has called DeVos “the most ideological anti-public education nominee” since the creation of the Department in 1979.

It is ironic, but not surprising, that Donald Trump would choose to surround himself with the likes of these candidates.

More worrisome is the fact that Ebell, DeVos and Sessions will undermine the very agency or department they will lead.

The E.P.A. should regulate polluters, the Education Department should be a cheerleader for public schools, and the Attorney General’s office should promote civil rights.

Sadly, these right wing ideologues will attempt to do the exactly the opposite.

To those who argue that the

past is prologue and that Trump has, repeatedly, been successful in defying conventional wisdom, I maintain that Trump is vulnerable.

It would take a Svengali to “con” the American people for four years.

If “we the people” speak truth to power, truth should prevail.

In 1940, when World War II was going badly for the British Empire, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons.

His prose was a rallying cry: “...we shall fight them in the fields and streets, we shall fight them in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if... this island were subjugated and starving... our Empire would carry on the struggle until in God’s good time...the New World...steps forth to the rescue of the old.

With unparalleled eloquence, the prime minister inspired his countrymen leading to the ultimate victory over the Nazi hordes.

Loosely paraphrasing the prime minister, here is my plea.

We must fight Trump in the halls of Congress; we must filibuster his cabinet and Supreme Court appointments; we must donate money, write letters, staff the phone banks, ring the doorbells, and truly make America great again.

Dr. Harry Sobel Great Neck

Assembly district owes thanks to Schimel

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wish to commend and add my voice to Eleanor and Chris Lange, Charlotte and David Sear on their inspiring letter regarding our 16th Assemblywoman, Michelle Schimel.

Wholeheartedly, I agree that the recognition of Assemblywoman Schimel is well deserved.

She can be categorized as inspirational in word and deed.

Since first being elected as

town clerk of North Hempstead in 1999 and then during her eightyear tenure as Assemblywoman, Michelle Schimel has been an outstanding legislator who “took a very personal interest in each and every resident. Those of us who had the privilege of working closely with the Assemblywoman knew her for her infinite blend of humor mixed with focusing on issues important to all our society.

We knew how fortunate we were to be a constituent.”

The Lange/Sear letter mentions the 66 “Schimel” bills that now exist in the New York State Legislature due to “her energy and commitment to her constituents was exceptional. She went beyond the call of duty.”

The list of her accomplishments are lengthy.

She has fervently served our

district intelligently and honorably.

The words mentioned in the Lange/Sear letter such as “honesty” and “integrity” and “work ethic,” to describe Assemblywoman Schimel are completely accurate.

Her passion is exemplary.

She has tirelessly demonstrated what is right and just about critical issues that concern all humanity.

Her legacy will be a source of pride for everyone.

The Lange/Sear letter is to be admired for their taking the initiative to acknowledge Assemblywoman Schimel who will be missed but has earned the respect of all her constituents... including me.

Lois A. Schaffer Great Neck

UN resolution hurts chances of peace in Israel

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aren Rubin (Dec. 30, 2016) says that the resolution in the Security Council that the Obama administration let be passed is the way “toward Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

She is wrong.

The agreed upon formula has always been “land for peace” — Israel gives back land and the Pal-

estinians make peace.

But now Israel has no land to give — the United Nations — with Obama’s approval said that all the land — no -— more than all the land — that the Palestinians should receive in an honest peace negotiation has, by that resolution, been given it to the Palestinians.

And if Israel agrees and goes

back to the borders demanded by that resolution will that bring peace?

Not according to the Palestinians.

Secretary Kerry set out a number of principles for peace one of which is two states, one for Jews and one for Palestinians.

This of course has been repeatedly turned down by the

Palestinians who still demand a “Right of Return” for Palestinians that lived in what Kerry thinks should be Israel and their descendants.

If this ever came to pass it would make Jews a minority in what Kerry says should be “a Jewish state”.

Let’s hope that if the Right of Return is brought to the Secu-

rity Council before Jan. 20 that Obama won’t again have the United States abstain.

Of course Israel won’t go along with such resolutions which would lead to its destruction. So how does the recent UN action bring us closer to peace?

Gerald Deutsch Glen Head

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F R O M T H E D E S K O F S E N AT O R J A C K M A R T I N S

Farewell to state Senate, but not goodbye So I have this old pair of boots that I use when I do any work on the house or in the yard.

They’re ancient, tattered – embarrassingly so – but they’re comfortable.

My wife, Paula despises them and wants them to go away.

Now logically I know she’s right but despite her pleading, I can’t seem to throw them out.

She says it’s because I can’t give up on anything…and I think she’s right.

In that light, the final days of 2016 are upon us, a time to reflect on the past while looking optimistically towards the future.

For me personally, December 31st also marks the end of my time in the State Senate, having opted not to run for reelection in order to pursue other opportunities.

At this juncture I don’t think there’s anybody who hasn’t heard the news but just in case you haven’t: I ran for Congress this last campaign, but the position went to former County Executive Tom Suozzi.

I wish him success and hope you will as well.

But back to this bittersweet moment.

Saying goodbye to something or someone you love is never easy, but there are many fond memories to look back on of great work done with great people to further great causes.

We didn’t win them all, but we never stopped trying.

We worked together, Republicans and Democrats, to build consensus.

And that’s what I’ll choose to reflect on for this final column.

Together, we worked to put New York State back on the right track and we delivered: cutting income taxes for middle class families to the lowest they’ve been in nearly 60 years; passing the property tax cap; investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Long Island’s economy; delivering record state education aid for our local schools; taking major steps to protect our environment; and doing it all without raising a single tax or fee!

We were able to address a number of quality of life issues that may not have statewide importance, but matter deeply to those in their respective communities.

I also authored 125 state laws on such issues as combating the

JACK M. MARTINS State Senator opioid epidemic, workforce development, increasing safety for first responders, helping homeless veterans, and e-prescription mobility.

When I first ran for State Senate, our goal was simple: to make New York more livable for the millions of everyday, working people who call it home. And we did just that despite the naysayers who said New York was ungovernable, that we should have just given up.

A lesson I learned growing up while working summers in construction with my dad was to always leave things better than we found them.

With every endeavor I under-

take, including this one, that’s the goal I set.

As I say farewell to all of you around the district, I’m told that New York is better today than it was six years ago.

That makes me proud but there’s still work to do.

Our next Senator, Elaine Phillips, is a personal friend who I know to be a compassionate, thoughtful leader who will work diligently to make things even better.

She’ll do great things for our neighborhoods and will continue the progress for which we’ve fought so hard.

I wish her well.

So now I say farewell to all of you, the people I will miss most of all.

It’s hard for me to imagine not being there for your graduations, civic meetings, tree lightings or the many impromptu run-ins at the local diner.

To be sure, I have received nothing but kindness and welcome from people of every political stripe and it confirms what I knew all along: there’s more that unites us than divides us.

We are mostly good people who simply want what’s best for our families.

Don’t let anyone tell you different.

Though I’m leaving the Senate, it doesn’t mean I’m going away.

I may write a column to you from time to time because this is my home, where I grew up and where Paula and I are raising our four daughters, and I still want the very best for all of us.

And if you see me in the market, running errands in my ugly boots, please don’t tell Paula.

The most appropriate way to close this incredible journey is by saying the same thing said at its beginning; thank you for giving me the honor and privilege of serving our community.

It’s one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever received and something which I will always treasure.

Wishing you and your family nothing but the best in the New Year and the years to follow – health, happiness, prosperity … and a government that works for you.

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Release officers’ names in wrongful arrest

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am a resident of Valley Stream, a parent, and a teacher.

I am also white, and I believe that black lives matter.

I am deeply troubled that black lives appear to not matter to Garden City Mayor Nicholas Episcopia and Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson, as demonstrated by their lack of good faith and transparency in handling a recent case of police brutality and misconduct.

On Dec. 2, theislandnow.com [Blank Slate Media] reported on Ronald Lanier, a retired Nassau County corrections officer and black man who was racially pro-

filed, misidentified, detained, and beaten by two white Garden City police officers.

As reported, the suspect for whom the officers were searching was later apprehended.

Officer Lanier was released without even an apology.

Officer Lanier is thankfully still alive today, but had he been armed that day there is nobody that can say with certainty whether or not he would still be alive now.

It has been one month since this incident occurred and the Garden City Police Department is still refusing to release the names of the officers who committed this

act, despite requests from Officer Lanier’s attorney and representatives of Black Law Enforcement organizations from across the state of New York.

Garden City officials have not released any comment to confirm whether or not there is any disciplinary action being taken or investigation into these officers’ actions taking place at all.

There is also video of the incident, captured on Western Beef supermarket surveillance cameras, which has not been released.

This lack of transparency should be deeply disturbing to every single person living on Long

Island, regardless of political affiliation or opinion.

Without knowing the officers’ names, the media and public have no means to look into whether similar complaints have been filed against these officers in the past.

We have no way to determine if the officers’ actions that night were part of a larger pattern of similar behavior.

We must assume that these officers pose a threat to the residents of Long Island, particularly black and brown residents, for as long as they are allowed to continue carrying badges and guns.

When there is no transparency,

how can we be expected to have faith that good cops will stand up to and protect us from bad ones who disgrace the uniform?

When we lose the ability to hold police accountable for bad actions, how can we avoid losing faith in the entire system?

When there is no justice, how can there be peace?

Mayor Episcopia and Commissioner Jackson must release the officers’ names and the Western Beef surveillance camera footage immediately.

Stephen Figurasmith Valley Stream

A great New Year’s resolution: help the needy

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he holidays has come to a close and a New Year, 2017 has begun.

In 2017 most of us are in the process of making our New Year’s resolutions. Which many of us will find some of which will be hard to keep. But maybe there are resolutions out there that we should make every effort to keep.

There are those in need of

our help even though the holidays are gone. The need remains, our food pantries and soup kitchens have needs to feed the poor all year round and when food runs out the poor do with less and that includes their children as well.

Let us not forget about our blood supply which is low after the holidays and are in desperate need of blood donations.

This I know first hand because I help run a blood drive at St. Anastasia Parish in Douglaston as Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus council #5911.

Again this year as we make our New Year’s resolutions let’s resolve to donate needed financial funds to help the poor, the needy, and the homeless by giv-

ing to those religious, community groups and government organizations.

These organizations also need volunteers and if you can spare the time please step up and help.

Remember there are poor and needy people out there and not only during the holidays but all year round.

Now that would be a great New Year’s resolution and that is a beautiful thing to do.

For it is in charity that is the greatest gift we can give to others this coming year, and you will be glad that you did.

Frederick R. Bedell, Jr. Mineola Letters Continued on Page 40

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BY M A X Z A H N Johnny Heil read J.R. Moehringerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-selling memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tender Barâ&#x20AC;? 10 years ago on an oďŹ&#x20AC;hand recommendation from his father. Late this month, Heil and fellow restaurateur Sean Peters will reopen Publicans, the Plandome Road pub made famous by the book. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The book struck a chord with me as it did with a lot of other readers,â&#x20AC;? Heil said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I ďŹ led it away in my mental Rolodex, and remembered it when I started looking to open something in the suburbs outside New York.â&#x20AC;?

In March, Heil, of Huntington, and Peters bought the property, which had been vacated by Edisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a bar that operated on the site for 15 years, Heil said. Before Edisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Publicans had sold food and drinks at the 500 Plandome Road location from 1970 to 1999.

During property dealings, Peters, a Manhasset resident, said he and Heil wanted to be sure a reopening of Publicans was

something those connected to the bar wanted. Luckily, Georgette Schnitzer, wife of the late Publicans owner Steve Schnitzer, is Petersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; neighbor, he said.

He met with Schnitzer, and over a bottle of wine, he said they laughed and exchanged stories about the bar during its hey-day.

She gave her blessing, he said.

While its original bar top remains, Publicansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; white-washed brick walls and cedar wood tables add a contemporary twist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We respect the past but we also want to bring things forward,â&#x20AC;? said Mike King, the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general manager. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do what we can to serve the best food possible.â&#x20AC;?

Executive chef Rich Schoenacher said the food oďŹ&#x20AC;erings will include classic Publicans staples like its signature hamburger, a steak for two, and a warm spinach salad.

The drinks menu will include an â&#x20AC;&#x153;approachable yet diverse selection of craft beersâ&#x20AC;? as well as bar staples like Coors Light, said Continued on Page 50

Work nears completion on the bar and seating area at Publicans, which will reopen in late January.

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For this upcoming show, The Johnny Mac Band, Jesse Eplan, Soul Junkies and Coastlwolf will hit the stage as they’re filmed for performance and interview segments showcasing their talent at one of Long Island’s top music venues located at 140 Merrick Road in Amityville.

After seeing news on Long Island turn more and more negative, Waldo Cabrera, creator and executive producer of “Rick’s Rising Stars,” used his experience in television and as a community activist to launch a web-based TV station, MyLITV.com, a collection of positive Long Island features about the people and events that make Long Island communities great.

On television since 2009, the “My Long Island TV” show has been honored with dozens of local and national journalism awards.

Recently, the show was nominated for a New York Emmy award, and within its first year in existence, MyLITV.com won the Best On Long Island award for Best Internet News and Best Internet Politics.

At the Fair Media Council’s FOLIO Awards, MyLITV.com (Islip.TV)

was the only web site to receive this journalism award.

“Rick’s Rising Stars” is presented by music industry veteran and insider Rick Eberle, the host and coproducer of the show who has had a long and illustrious career in the entertainment industry as a publicist, talent agent, artist manager, musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist and TV and radio personality.

With a diverse range of musical genres from blues and soul to pop, singer-songwriter, and reggae, The Johnny Mac Band, Jesse Eplan, Soul Junkies and Coastlwolf will bring talent and passion to the stage at Revolution.

As they perform and sit down for an interview segment, viewers can get the real stories behind the bands

and artists, their music, how they came to be and what drives them to pursue their passion.

As “Rick’s Rising Stars” returns to Revolution for its first taping of the new year, this is a chance to catch these local acts and be in the audience for a TV taping of their performance on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

The show is for attendees age 16 and older. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 on the day of the show.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

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Where: Planting Fields Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay Info: (516) 922-8678 • plantingfields.org

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Book Talk: The Art of Living Other People’s Lives by Greg Dybec

Friday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m.

Long Island author and managing editor of Elite Daily will be speaking and signing copies of his new book, a funny, brash and insightful collection of twenty never-before-published stories that will strike a chord with anyone struggling to balance their IRL selves with their virtual ones.

Where: Book Revue, 313 New York Avenue, Huntington Info: (631) 271-1442 • bookrevue.com

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Saturday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd with THE WALL Theatrical Extravaganza!

A sublime performance, with top-notch musicians and a brilliant stage setting completely out of the ordinary.

Where: The Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Rd., Westbury Info: (516) 334-0800 • venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 2 p.m.

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Film: The Salesman Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

A sudden eruption of violence creates an atmosphere of simmering tension between a husband and wife in this slow-burning domestic suspense from Academy Award-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation).

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Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Children ages 18 months to 4 years will be up to their elbows in oobleck, clean mud and slime. Join the types of artistic activities that everyone loves, but no one likes to clean-up after.

Free with museum admission.

Where: The Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City Info: 516-224-5828 or www.licm.org

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errymaking in a Gold Coast Mansion

Sunday, Jan. 15 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Come to the museum dressed for a party inspired by the Frick family, have your picture taken just like the many portraits on view in the museum’s 100 Years of Photos exhibition, and embark on a scavenger hunt throughout the museum. Museum admission plus $10 per family materials fee. Reservations not needed.

Where: Nassau County Museum of Art / One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor Info: 516-484-9338 or www.nassaumuseum.org

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ubber Duckie Party

Saturday, Jan. 14 at 2:30 p.m.

Celebrate National Rubber Duckie Day! Join the annual party with bubbles, duckie feet, a scavenger hunt, and duck designing.

Admission plus $5 craft fee.

Member child $5.

Where: The Whaling Museum 279 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor / Info: 631-367-3418cshwhalingmuseum.org

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inter Ice Show Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Join the Metropolitan Figure Skating Club, the oldest figure skating club on Long Island, for an afternoon winter ice show. Bring the whole family for an entertaining display of talent on the ice rink!

Where: Iceland Rink 3345 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park Info: 516-746-1100 www.icelandlongisland.com

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

A healthier diet for the new year Many people make their New Year resolution to eat healthier and with less calories.

This resolution is easier to keep than you can imagine.

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MENU Egg White Breakfast “Burrito” Almost No Calorie Dressing Chicken Meatloaf Egg White Breakfast “Burrito” Serves 2 Egg whites are a low calorie, fat-free food, but are still high in protein.

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FYI - the yolk does contain 100% of your daily A, E, D & K vitamins. You make the choice of yolk or no yolk.

By using lettuce as your “burrito”, you save well over one hundred calories.

Spray Olive Oil 1/2 sweet yellow onion, diced 1 garlic clove, pressed 1/2 red bell pepper, diced 1 tsp. ground cumin 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper 4 large egg whites, beaten 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper 2 large iceberg or romaine lettuce leaves 1. Heat olive oil in an 11-inch cast iron skillet over medium flame.

Saute onion and garlic until tender, about five minutes.

Add bell pepper, cumin and cayenne pepper, mixing well for one minute.

2. Add beaten egg whites and mix with spatula until cooked thoroughly.

Sprinkle with ground pepper.

Wrap tightly in lettuce leaves and serve.

1/4 tsp. garlic powder I use Penzey’s 1/4 tsp. onion powder I use Penzey’s 1. In a jar fitted with a tight lid (I use a Ball canning jar), place all of the ingredients.

2. Shake vigorously. Keep in refrigerator and use 2 tablespoons for each serving.

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect Almost No Calorie Dressing Approximately 10 Servings Store bought salad dressings may contain well over 100 calories per 2 tablespoon serving.

Try this dressing instead and save thousands of calories per year.

2/3 cup water 2 packets Splenda 2 tblsps. Dijon Mustard 1 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire Sauce

Chicken Meatloaf Serves 4-6 By using 98% fat-free ground organic chicken and bulking up the meatloaf with vegetables and chicken stock, you save over 200 calories per serving.

Spray olive oil 1/2 onion peeled and root removed 2 carrots peeled and cut into chunks 2 celery stalks peeled and cut into stalks 4 Campari tomatoes 1 garlic clove peeled 1/2 cup homemade or store bought chicken stock

1 lb organic 98 percent fat free ground chicken 1/2 cup ketchup (optional) 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Lightly spray an oven-proof dish.

3. Combine all of the ingredients, except the chicken in a blender.

Blend until combined.

Place puree in a large bowl, gently combine chicken with puree.

I use my hands.

4. Pour mixture into prepared dish and bake 30-40 minutes.

If topping with ketchup, smear on top and broil until bubbly.

If not using ketchup, bake 10 minutes more.

Serve.

Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 32 year-old Greenvale-based company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties.

She lives in Manhasset with her husband and son.

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A gallery exhibit to compare, contrast b. j. spoke gallery’s “Artists’ Choice” exhibit this coming month will compare and contrast artists’ interpretations of subject matter and styles.

Gallery members invite artists they respect and admire to show with them.

For example, gallery member and New Hyde Park resident Katherine Criss invited Huntington artist Caitlyn Shea to show her painting “Predator.”

Shea’s smiling wolf reflects surreal danger and Criss’s photograph, “Broken,”

the window seems menacing.

Member artist Liz Ehrlichman invited Ronnie Sussman, her longtime friend.

Recently they have been painting portraits.

Grandchildren and friends alike rebel at being asked to sit still for long periods.

Sussman works from a photograph that she finds and likes, pinning a print of it to her easel. She chooses the parts of the photo that will be in her portrait, then invents other parts of the painting.

Ehrlichman works from a photograph that she has taken and liked. She crops it in Photoshop and corrects the light, then projects it on a TV screen.

Both Sussman and Ehrlichman paint alla prima, right on the canvas, with no under-drawing to begin with.

Both of them work using successive approximations and a lot of overpainting, until the work begins to take shape and look right.

The exhibition also includes b.j. spoke

“Broken” by Katherine Criss, 2012

“Predator” by Caitlyn Shea

“Nikki” by Liz Ehrlichman

“Milo One” by Ronnie Sussman

member artists Richard Anello, John Bell, Barbara Grey, Barbara V. Jones, Robert Korval, Lili Maglione, Diane Marxe, Nicolette Pach, Cindy Shechter, Connie Wain, Bert Winsberg and Kasia Wittie.

“Artists’ Choice” is on view from Wednesday, Jan. 4 until Sunday, Jan. 29 at b.j. spoke gallery at 299 Main St. in Huntington.

The opening reception for “Artists’ Choice” is on Saturday, Jan. 7, from 6 to 9 p.m.

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DON’T LET FOOT PAIN RUIN YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS! Start the New Year right with no foot pain. Millions of Americans are suffering from foot and ankle pain that can interfere with daily life and make you feel miserable. The most common cause of heel pain is Plantar Fasciitis, which can feel like stabbing in the heel or an achy arch. It can be caused by poorly constructed footwear, walking on hard surfaces, or excessive standing and flat feet. Ankle strains and sprains are another common occurrence.

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Town, art groups to NYC’s The Dives to hold contest, exhibit play Revolution Bar The Town of North Hempstead along with the North Hempstead Arts Advisory Council and The Art Guild of Port Washington, will be holding its second Arts Matter! Juried Art Contest and Exhibit.

The theme of this contest is multicultural aspects of the Town of North Hempstead.

The entries will be accepted until Jan. 30 and the exhibit will be on display at Town Hall in Manhasset from Feb. 14 to April 14.

Entrants must be a resident of the =town, an employee of a business located in the town or a member of an arts organization within the town.

All artists must be 18 years old or older.

Any artwork submitted must be available from Feb. 13 to April 14 and must have been completed in the past

three years.

Each artist may submit up to three artworks per entry. The cost per entry is $25. All entries must be submitted by Jan. 30.

For more information, including how to enter, accepted art mediums, additional rules and regulations can be found at: www.northhempsteadny.gov/ btdc.

The winning art works will be on display at Town Hall in Manhasset from Feb. 14 to April 14. The exhibit will be open to the public.

The Arts Matter! artist’s reception will take place on Tuesday, March 14 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Town Hall.

For more information and to access the entry form please visit www.northhempsteadny.gov/btdc or call 311 or 516-869-6311.

Port Art Guild sets winter class schedule The Art Guild of Port Washington announced its winter 2017 schedule of classes and workshops for children and adults.

The following classes and workshops will be offered for adults: Mondays — Drawing: Get Sharp! for Beginners & Get Sharper! for Intermediates with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson (Eight weeks, beginning Jan. 23. Beginners 1 to 3:30 p.m., intermediates 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

Tuesdays — Oil Painting: Landscape Painting for beginners & intermediates with Paul Bachem (Six weeks, beginning Jan. 10. Beginners 1 to 4 p.m., Intermediates 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

Wednesdays — Watercolor for beginners & intermediates with Eileen Neville (Six weeks, beginning Jan. 11. Beginners noon to 2 p.m. Intermediates 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m.)

Thursdays — Oil Painting: The Still Life for All Levels with Frances Ianarella (Six weeks, beginning Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.)

A four-day Watercolor Workshop for adults with internationally acclaimed artist Joyce Hicks will be offered June 22 to 25.

Workshops with artists Christine LaFuente (alla prima aainting), Christian White, Stephanie Navon-Jacobson (printmaking), Paul Bachem (plein air)

and others are also being planned for 2017.

Save the date for a three-day Colored Pencil Workshop with artist and author Kristy Kutch from April 22-24, 2018.

The following classes and workshops will be offered for children: Saturdays — Children’s Art Studio (ages 8 to 12), Six weeks, beginning Jan. 28, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ; Art Explorations (ages 5 to 7) six weeks, beginning Jan. 28, noon to 1:15 p.m.

Wednesdays — Children’s Art Studio (ages 8 to 12), Six weeks, beginning Jan. 25, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Thursdays — Advanced Art Instruction for High School Students (ages 15 to 18), eight weeks, beginning Feb. 9, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Entries are being accepted for a juried photography exhibit, “From My Perspective,” until Jan. 13. It will be on exhibit from Feb. 4 to 26.

The artists’ reception will be Feb. 4 from 3 to 5 p.m. A “Works On Paper” exhibit is being planned for March 2016.

Registration forms as well as information regarding class descriptions and fees are available on The Art Guild web site at www.theartguild.org or by calling 516-304-5797.

The Art Guild is located at Elderfields Preserve at 200 Port Washington Blvd. in Manhasset.

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New York City’s nationally renowned power pop rock band, The Dives, featuring frontman Evan Stanley, will headline a concert at Revolution Bar and Music Hall in Amityville on Saturday, Jan. 7 from 10:30 p.m. to 12:35 a.m.

The Dives will perform their original hits such as “Anticipation,” “She’s A Woman” and “Take it All,” plus a mix of high-energy danceable ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s pop-rock cover songs.

Booking agent and music publicist Lisa Gandia will be present to welcome guests to the show.

The band’s members are Evan Stanley (guitar/vocals), Mike Lefton (guitar/

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Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Opening acts start at 7 p.m.

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For more information visit http:// clubloaded.com/revolution-bar-music-hall/ or call Revolution Bar and Music Hall, 140 Merrick Road, Amityville, at 631-264-7712.

G.C. church to hold charity concert Jan. 14 The Garden City Community Church will hold its sixth annual “Will Sing for Food” charity concert on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m.

The event features musical performances and all donations at the door will help fund the Long Island Council of

Churches food pantries.

“Will Sing for Food” is sponsored by the Garden City Community Church Board of Outreach.

The concert will take place at the church, located at 245 Stewart Ave. in Garden City.

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • goldcoastarts.org Jan. 22 to March 12 Lost & Found: The Art of Assembling LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Saturday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m.

Tom Papa, standup comedian Saturday, Jan. 14 at 2 p.m.

The Olate Dogs, America’s Got Talent winning family show Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m.

Berenstain Bears, live musical show PLANTING FIELDS Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 • http://www.plantingfields.org FRIDAY, JAN. 20 at 7 p.m.

West Side 5 Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m.

The Master Keys Thursday, March 24 at 7 p.m.

Hot Club of Flatbush THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m.

The Purple Xperience: A Tribute to Prince with Special Guest Don’t Believe in Ghosts Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.

O El Amor with Special Guest Judas Priestess Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m.

Michael Carbonaro Live Friday, Jan. 13 “The Ultimate Beach Party Tribute to Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown” TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | LIU POST 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • http:// tillescenter.org Saturday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m.

The Yale Spizzwinks LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City 516-224-5800 • www.licm.org Friday, Jan. 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Kids in the Kitchen Saturday, Jan. 7 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Braille Fest - Happy Birthday Louis Braille Saturday, Jan. 7 and Sunday, Jan. 8 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Messy Afternoons Sunday, Jan. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Dreaming with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ages 5 and up. Fee $3 with museum admission ($2 for LICM members) Tuesday, Jan. 17 through Friday, Jan. 20 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Silly Snow People Ages 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Saturday, Jan. 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Air-mazing Dynamos Ages 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Saturday, Jan. 21 and Sunday, Jan. 22 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Messy Afternoons Ages 18 months to 4 years. Free with museum admission.

METROPOLITAN FIGURE SKATING CLUB Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Winter Ice Show at Iceland Rink 3345 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park 516-746-1100 HUNTINGTON ARTS COUNCIL 213 Main Street, Huntington February 2-25 The Human Condition exhibit THE JOHNNY MAC BAND Sunday, Jan. 15 Mousetrap Cafe Amityville GOVERNORS’ COMEDY CLUB 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs. com/index.cfm Friday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Nick Griffin ZEBRA- A HAMMERHEADS REUNION Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall 3232 Railroad Avenue, Wantagh Saturday, Jan. 14 NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 www.nassaumuseum.org Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Ansel Adams: Sight and Feeling Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Light Works: 100 Years of Photos Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 New Photos: Long Island Collects Ongoing Sculpture Park Walking Trails Gardens Events FILM SCREENING Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017

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Super Family Sunday Merrymaking in a Gold Coast Mansion 11 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 p.m.

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Jan. 17, Feb. 14 Sketching in the Galleries Exhibition Lecture Thursdays. 1-2 p.m.

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Israeli leaders opposed to Palestinian state

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read Karen Rubin’s Dec. 30 explanation of why the US abstained from vetoing the UN resolution 2334 condemning the continued building by Israel of settlements in the occupied areas of the West Bank.

When Yitzak Rabin the Israeli prime minister, per the agreed upon Oslow Accords, sought to end settlements he was assassinated by right-wing extremists.

Since then the Likud party and Netanyahu have dictated policy.

Regardless of what was said, that policy has been to not permit

a Palestinian state.

The building of settlements in occupied areas through land appropriation, forceful removal of the inhabitants, and the destruction of their homes have aggressively, without stop, been pursued.

Entire villages have been eradicated.

In preclusion of a viable Palestinian state massive extensive walls, checkpoints, and highways exclusive to Israelis in the Palestinian lands have been built.

In the Nakba of 1945 were Palestinians were removed from their

homelands.

Since then Palestinians have demanded the right of return to their homes and land.

Acceding to this demand would effectively end the existence of a Jewish state.

The full granting of citizenship to Palestinians and non-Jews would likewise it is feared, most certainly result in Jews becoming a minority.

Israelis taking pride in their developing of the land are now permanent occupants.

Rubin, in her article, in citing

the firing of thousands of rockets places blame on the Palestinians for the 2014 destruction brought down on Gaza.

At that time Hamas, whose charter includes exterminating Jews, had become the legally elected government of Gaza.

Prior to this so-called war between the 10th most powerful military in the world and the blockaded occupants of Gaza the greatest abuses and provocations, by Israel, were ongoing and continuous.

Is abrogating the First Amendment and prohibiting boycotting a

solution?

Are greater armaments without conditions helpful?

Is a firmer and more even handed U.S. policy necessary?

Former chiefs of Mossad and the IDF have said that the present situation is unsustainable and in need modification; allowances they say must be made.

Can the positive moral and ethical aspects of Islam and Judaism reach agreement with realpolitik?

Jim Ansel Port Washington

Some work for the people, some for themselves

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am beginning this article with some big thoughts and am using the term ‘The Universe’ to mean all that exists.

It is said that the universe had no beginning: That it always has been. This is quite beyond our comprehension.

Even if it did have a beginning, there would have to have been a cause for that to happen and a cause for that cause, etc.

Then for the universe to have no boundaries.

If one came to the end of it, what would lie beyond? Again, far beyond our comprehension.

The Constitution of the USA begins: Our Creator has endowed us with certain inalienable rights, etc.,

etc.

This creator is that of our solar system. This great being who encompasses our entire solar system with his being including every atom of each of us and all else that we are.

Considering the vastness of the universe, our entire solar system would be no more than a tiny speck if anywhere near that much.

NASA says that there are billions of galaxies like ours each with millions of tiny ‘specks.’

As is said, the Greeks and Romans had their Gods (God of The Sea, God of Love, etc.). Eastern Asia had Buddha and there are many more.

But put all of these beings and God’s in relative perspective.

Jump to today: There are those now who have their God of gold, God of the golf course and the like.

There are also those amongst us with great knowledge. Some are considered to be initiates.

There was Pluto, Socrates, Michelangelo, Leonardo di Vinci and Buddha who I mentioned to name a few.

The list could go on and on in many fields of knowledge.

We’re it not for the likes of those mentioned and if it had been left up to the average human being, one can wonder if we would have the telegraph yet: you know, the one with the Morse code representing the ABCs and the letters S O S used as the distress signal: DotDotDot Dash

Dash Dash DotDotDot. Other things came later such as the teletype.

Jump to today where so much has changed from analog to digital.

Strings of one’s and zeros. The original computers filled a large room and used huge amounts of electricity.

Those who today develop and manufacture what we now have in such small packages can well be considered to be initiates of knowledge and skill.

Among other things that have happened in these times is when President Obama by executive order (arm twisting) created the Affordable Care Act so that those needing help would not be bankrupted in the process.

This was an act for the good of humanity.

This has now pretty much been destroyed.

Some health insurance CEOs are making $35,000 or more per day as I read. ‘Later with the people.’

Clearly, greed and gold are their gods. Their actions do not require much skill or knowledge.

Those who weave the fabrics from which are made the clothes we wear have much more skill and knowledge.

Take good look at what you are wearing. All around it is clear who works for the people and those who only ‘work’ for themselves.

Charles Samek Mineola

Hoppe left tough act to follow at the LIRR

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here is more to the first anniversary of the passing of former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Long Island Rail Road President Charles Hoppe.

He inherited construction of the ongoing Jamaica Hillside Yard and Shop project from his predecessor, Bruce McIver, who served as LIRR President from 1985 to 1989.

This maintenance facility was designed to support LIRR’s electric fleet of almost 1,000 cars.

It was being built at the old Gimbels department store Jamaica warehouse site.

Construction of the Hillside Maintenance facility was several years behind schedule.

Work began in January 1985 with an estimated cost of $215 million.

By May 1989, the project was already $140 million over budget with a significant number of change orders.

The final project cost was anticipated to be $393 million.

Due to ongoing problems with this project, the U.S. Department of Transportation Urban Mass Trans-

portation Administration (today known as the Federal Transit Administration) made a determination that the LIRR lacked technical capacity for management of this and other major construction projects.

In March 1989, UMTA suspended the LIRR’s eligibility to receive any new federal funding.

Hoppe restored UMTA’s confidence in rebuilding the LIRR’s technical capacity by successfully completing the Hillside Maintenance facility and managing the $100 million Harold Interlocking project (using 100 percent local MTA funding).

Under Hoppe’s watch, UMTA once again became confident in the LIRR and two years later restored its eligibility for receipt of federal funding.

UMTA went on to provide $200 million for the original Penn Station improvements project versus today’s version sponsored by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Both the Harold Interlocking and Penn Station improvement projects were successfully completed on time, within budget and without significant numbers of change orders to the construction contracts.

One significant failure under Hoppe was a future fatal flaw in the purchase of both duel mode locomotives and double-decker passenger cars.

Those responsible for design, engineering and bid specifications to support procurement of duel mode locomotives and double decker passenger cars failed to take into consideration height clearances for the 63rd Street tunnel between Manhattan and Queens.

(Construction on this tunnel began in 1969 designed to be used at a future date to provide the LIRR with a direct connection to Grand Central Terminal).

As a result, the LIRR fleet of 23 diesel-electric and 23 duel-mode locomotives along with 134 doubledecker passenger cars will not be able to utilize East Side Access for future service to Grand Central Terminal.

The anticipated revenue service date has slipped on numerous occasions from originally 2011.

(Some elected officials with no background in what it actually takes to construct a major transportation

project promised 2009).

The MTA “corporate party line” claim (based upon the most recent project recovery schedule which has also changed numerous times during the life of the project) calls for a December 2023 opening day passenger service.

Based upon previous history of delays, changes in procurement strategy, re advertising of contracts, change orders to contracts, re sequencing of work, recovery schedules, cost overruns, budget issues and coordination issues with Amtrak including providing construction contractors with insufficient track outage time necessary to perform work, don’t be surprised if first day of passenger service occurs in 2024 or later.

Thousands of daily LIRR riders from diesel territory branches (including those commuting from stations east of Huntington to Port Jefferson, east of Mineola to Oyster Bay, east of Babylon to Speonk or Montauk and east of Ronkonkoma to Greenport) will still have to change at Jamaica for those traveling to or from the future LIRR Grand

Central Terminal or Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn.

When the Oyster Bay branch is converted to a permanent scoot shuttle service, riders on that line will also have to switch at Mineola including rush hours.

Hoppe served as LIRR President from 1990 to 1994.

In the eyes of many transportation experts, he moved the LIRR capital improvements program from the dog house to the penthouse.

Under his watch, it was expected that capital projects would be completed on time, within budget, without significant numbers of change orders to construction contracts and minimal inconveniences to riders during construction.

Current LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski continues to have a tough act to follow.

Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office)

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Bryant Library FILM: FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Thursday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m.

FILM: SULLY Thursday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m.

WRITING WORKSHOP: FINDING YOUR NARRATIVE VOICE Wednesday, Jan. 4, 11, 18 at 6 p.m.

Online registration required.

This free writing workshop will explore how to create an original narrative voice in fiction and non-fiction. A strong emphasis will be placed on constructing credible and engaging characters, and bringing fictional scenes to life.

WORKSHOP: HOW TO APPEAL YOUR PROPERTY’S ANNUAL ASSESSMENTWednesday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m.

If you pay taxes on property in Nassau County, you have the right to appeal your property’s annual assessment set by the Nassau County Department of Assessment.

The filing period is Jan. 2-March 1. Town of North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman will review the grievance process and have applications available at this valuable workshop.

WORKSHOP: REFLEXOLOGY & YOU Thursday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.

Online registration required. Learn the essential points of reflexology with this informative lecture and demonstration. Free admission.

DANIEL GALE & WELLS FARGO REAL ESTATE SEMINARS Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m.

Come meet community representatives from Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International

Realty, as well as Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in an informal setting. Topics will include local trends and marketing data, mortgage qualifications, complimentary pre-approvals, and answers to many of your mortgage questions. Refreshments will be served.

ART LECTURES WITH INES POWELL: VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE: BEYOND CARAVAGGIO Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 1 p.m.

Join this lecture on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition entitled “Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio.” French painter de Boulogne (1591-1632) was deeply influenced by the realism of Caravaggio and approached religious and secular themes in a very original and dramatic way before his sudden death at the age of 41, abruptly ending his promising career.

A CELEBRATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m.

Friendship Baptist Church Pastor Victor Lewis returns to the library for their annual Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration. This year, the pastor will speak about the accomplishments of Dr. King, the values that he preached, and the important message he left for us that is still relevant today.

THE METROPOLITAN SPRING PREVIEW VIDEO PRESENTATION BY PHILIP MALAMUD Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 1:30 p.m.

Many of the greatest singers in the world perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Here you will see and hear some of the great artists who will be performing at the Met this upcoming season, with scenes from some

of the operas on the spring schedule, including works by Mozart, Verdi and others.

“THE LOVE SONG” OF EDWARD HOPPER (WITH APOLOGIES TO T.S. ELIOT): A PRESENTAION BY LINDA LOHRIUS AND ANITA RABIN-HAVT Thursday, Jan. 19 at 1 p.m.

This hour program teams the remarkable paitings of Edward Hopper, possibly the most important realist painter of twentiethcentury America, with one of the greatest poems of the same period, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock” by T.S. Eliot.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE WHITE HOUSE: A POLITICAL DISCUSSION FACILITATED BY PROFESSOR FRANK SICOLI Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 1 p.m.

Join Frank Sicoli, professor of philosophy at Hofstra University, for a fascinating look at the most important question surrounding the 2016 presidential election: What happened? The goal of the discussion is to focus on the factors that impacted the 2016 presidential election and, ultimately, Donald Trump’s effect on American politics.

THE PAUL JOSEPH QUARTET: VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS: JAZZ QUARTET STYLE! Sunday, Jan. 8 at 2:30 p.m.

Come join this enjoyable and adventurous afternoon of music as Antonio Vivaldi’s popular “Four Seasons” will be presented in a way you’ve never heard before by composer/pianist Paul Joseph and his jazz quartet.

PHIL MALAMUD PIANO RECITAL Sunday, Jan. 15 at 2:30 p.m.

Philip Malamud, who has performed widely

with orchestras and chamber music ensembles, will present a live piano recital, which will include the music of Hayden, Albeniz, Grieg, and Chopin.

LITTLE PANDAS BOOK CLUB Friday, Jan. 6 at 6:30 p.m.

Join the library the first Friday of every month for a program designed for children who are interested in exploring Chinese culture and language through stories, music, and crafts. The program is conducted in English with some basic Mandarin Chinese. All children (K-5) and parents are welcome.

BOOK TALKS WITH ELIZABETH OLESH Monday, Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Shriver by Chris Belden BOOK TALKS WITH ARUNA POLAVARAPU Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris TUESDAY YOGA Registration Required. $42 for full session Jan. 3, 10, 24, 31 at 9:30 a.m.

THURSDAY YOGA Registration Required. $49 for full session Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26 at 9:30 a.m.

SATURDAY YOGA Registration Required. $42 for full session Jan. 14, 21, 28 at 9:30 a.m.

TUESDAY BODY SCULPTING A full body work out for night owls. Please bring 3 or 5lb weights to the session for heightened intensity. Registration Required.

Roslyn Community Calendar SUNDAY MORNING SOFTBALL IN EAST HILLS PARK The weekly East Hills pick up softball game is looking for a few good men. Games are every Sunday, weather permitting, from 8:30-11:30 at the park in East Hills, off Harbor Hill Road. We have guys who have been playing in this game since the 80s, but it’s been going on even longer than that!

Any men interested in helping continue this thirty plus year tradition are encouraged to attend. Contacts: William Gavin, East Hills Park Director 516 484 9800; Steward Faden 516 410 6666; Peter Wagner 516 527-1200.

ACBL BRIDGE ACBL sanctioned Bridge games take place in the Nursery School Atrium every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and Thursday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. in the main building at Shelter Rock Jewish Center, 272 Shelter Rock Rd., Roslyn. Call 917-658-5991 to make a reservation.

TUESDAY NIGHT BINGO Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5253 will host bingo on Tuesday nights from 7 to 11 p.m. The top prize is $1,500 with additional

cash prizes totaling $1,700. Admission is $4 at the post, 155 Searingtown Road.

SUFFERERS OF ARTHRITIS Glen Cove Hospital offers a free, weekly class for people with arthritis on an ongoing basis every Thursday, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the hospital’s 1 South Dining Room, 101 St. Andrew’s Lane, Glen Cove. The class is taught by Merav deGuzman, the hospital’s recreational therapy supervisor, who is also certified by the Arthritis Foundation.

The low-impact exercises are designed to reduce joint pain and decrease stiffness.

The program is open to the community. For more information or to reserve a place in the arthritis class (limited space available), please contact Merav deGuzman at Glen Cove Hospital at: 516-674-7696.

TBS Sisterhood Adult Education Classes Open to the Community Temple Beth Sholom offers an array of classes in Hebrew, Bible study, Torah cantillation, Jewish thinkers, prayer, and parenting through a Jewish lens. These day and evening classes are open to all adults – women, men, including those who aren’t temple members -- although there is

a registration fee for some of the courses.

Many of the courses begin in Sept.

There is a Tuesday morning series of classes taught by Zahavah Rosenfeld, a highly experienced Hebrew and Jewish studies teacher, and a monthly “Lunch and Learn” program with guest speakers.

For further information, please download the brochure from the temple website: www.tbsroslyn.org under the Community heading, the under Sisterhood, then click on the Adult Education brochure link. Or pick up a brochure at the temple office, 401 Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights, NY 11577; or call 516-621-2288.

The Samuel Field Y weekday programs for preschool children (ages 3-5) with developmental disabilities and their families On Wednesdays 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site: 58-20 Little Neck Parkway. Little Neck.

We also have our Sunday Fun Day program 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at our Little Neck Site.

Program runs Nov. 6, Nov. 20, Dec. 4, and Dec. 18.

Also join us for our Veteran’s Day party on Friday, Nov. 11 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Programs are $5.00 per family. Snack will be served Programs are ongoing and may be joined at any time.

This program is made possible by a grant from the NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities – Queens DDSO For further info and to RSVP, contact Amanda at 718 423-6111 ext 242 or e mail asmith@sfy.org Kindergarten Registration for Roslyn Public Schools The registration period for students entering the Roslyn Public Schools in September of 2017 will be the weeks of Feb. 6, 2017 through Feb. 10, 2017 and March 6, 2017 through March 10, 2017.

All children entering Kindergarten must be 5 years old by December 1, 2017.

If your child does NOT attend a local nursery school, please call the Heights School office at (516) 801-5500 to place your child on the registration list.

The Heights faculty and staff are eager to welcome you and your youngster!

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Energy conservation education at S’town Students in the Herricks school district’s Searingtown Elementary School learned important lessons about energy conservation during a presentation by the National Theatre for Children, sponsored by PSEG Long Island.

The program featured a performance by cast members who taught students where energy and resources come from and ways to use them efficiently.

Main character Nicky Neutron brought the students with him on a mission to stop energy from being wasted.

Together they learned about basic ways to conserve energy, such as turning appliances off when not using them, using compact fluorescent lightbulbs and keeping air conditioning at moderate levels.

Prior to the show, Searingtown received teacher guides and student activity booklets to familiarize students with the topics and content.

More information about this production is available at NTCplayworks.com.

Herricks ed board salutes students Herricks The Herricks school district recognized students for various achievements at the Dec. 8 school board meeting.

Honors were presented for recent accomplishments in academics and athletics.

Varsity football players secured four post-season awards.

Michael Saleme earned all-county status, Michael Scaldaferri was named all-county honorable mention, Michael Chase received recognition as a National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete and Nicholas Gounaris was presented with the Long Island Association of Football Officials’ Unsung Hero Award.

Herricks High School junior Asiya Hassan was awarded first place and a scholarship for her essay on suburban diversity in the “Celebration for Suburban Diversity 2016” essay contest.

The girls swim team was crowned Conference IV champions after completing an undefeated season with a record of 8-0.

The team competed in three relays at the Nassau County Girls Swimming Championships, and Katherine Hong additionally competed in the 100-meter backstroke.

Head Coach Sara Bove expressed pride in the 23 team members and two team managers for their hard work and dedication.

A total of 30 certificates were presented to all of these students.

players fundraise Herricks High School’s boys and girls basketball teams hosted a “Coaches vs. Cancer” tournament to benefit the American Cancer Society.

With support from the Herricks Athletic Boosters, the athletes raised $2,300 through sales of T-shirts, baked goods and raffle tickets.

The tournament was held on Dec. 7 and Dec. 9 and featured competitions for both girls and boys varsity teams.

Neighboring teams came to Herricks High School to participate in friendly games.

The boys component involved Herricks, East Meadow, New Hyde Park and Westbury, while girls teams who participated were from Herricks, Hewlett, Mineola and New Hyde Park.

“Coaches vs. Cancer” is the name of a collaboration between the American Cancer Association and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Herricks class addresses sexual assault On Dec. 13, Herricks High School’s “Man’s Inhumanity to Man” class hosted an event to shed light on the topic of sexual assault.

Students prepared a display called “Culture of Respect,” which presented statistics, facts and messages in unique formats.

“Man’s Inhumanity to Man” is a semester-long senior Social Studies Participation in Government elective.

Each class selects an issue to explore as an overall theme.

“The goal in picking a theme is to raise awareness of these issues within the greater school community,” teacher Pascale Gabriel said. “In the past, the class has chosen topics such as human trafficking, child soldiers, water scarcity and genocide in Darfur.”

This past semester’s class decided to investigate the issue of sexual violence against wom-

en after reading about many cases in recent media.

The students determined that an interactive exhibit in the library media center would serve as an informative way to reach their school community.

Students created T-shirt designs that shared findings from their research and assembled

them on clothes lines across the library media center.

This component of the program loosely modeled the Clothesline Project, a national effort that addresses violence against women through expression of emotions on T-shirts.

The class also organized various stations that covered differ-

ent aspects of the topic.

Students offered flyers about resources and organizations that can offer help, encouraged peers to sign a petition advocating for legislation to make support available for sexual assault victims on college campuses and asked guests to design their own T-shirts.

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The shirts were emblazoned with statements and data from research that illustrate how prevalent sexual assault is in today’s world.

“The project was exciting and powerful,” Gabriel said.

The exhibit was open until Dec. 23.

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Herricks High School’s Youth Against Cancer participants ran a schoolwide toy drive to benefit Winthrop University Hospital’s Cancer Center for Kids.

The hospital sent Herricks a wish list and, with donations from faculty, Youth Against Cancer students and staff members collected at least one gift from each of the items on the list.

Kim Krupa, the child life specialist at the cancer center, coordinated the project with the Youth Against Cancer Board and its adviser, Dan Doherty.

The board consists of Aleyah Ali, Natalie Reisman, Sarah Andreano, Melissa Lau, Natalie Pusateri, Nina Schifano and Meghan Carson.

The Cancer Center for Kids works with children and their families that are diagnosed with any form of cancer.

The registration period for students entering the Roslyn Public Schools in September of 2017 will be the weeks of Feb. 6, 2017 through Feb. 10, 2017 and March 6, 2017 through March 10, 2017.

All children entering Kindergarten must be 5 years old by Dec. 1, 2017.

If your child does NOT attend a local nursery school, please call the Heights School office at (516) 801-5500 to place your child on the registration list.

H.S. basketball Board of Ed. meet builds teamwork Jan. 26 The Roslyn High School Girls’ Varsity Basketball team took teamwork capabilities off the court and put it to good use to escape a locked room as part of an adventure game where players have to use elements of the room to solve puzzles in order to escape within a set time limit. The team’s ability to work well with one another and persevere through challenges enabled them to successfully escape.

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The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Roslyn Public Schools Board of Education will take place on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, at 8:00 pm in Roslyn High School. The Board’s meeting on Jan. 12, 2017 is cancelled. Agendas and minutes for Board of Education meetings are available at www.roslynschools.org; click on “Board of Education.”

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Events to come at JCC Upcoming Events at Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center 1. Family Playtime Sunday, Jan. 22 Ages: Birth-7 years and their families Bagels, games and playtime, along with Jewish crafts, stories, hands-on learning experiences and celebrations.

10:00-11:45am $10 per family / free for members 2. Shabbat Stop Saturday, Jan. 7 Ages: Birth-8 years and their families Join us for games, face painting, art, music, stories and dancing, along with relaxation and exercise.

2:30-5:00pm 3. Conversational Hebrew Ulpan classes Students are immersed in writing, oral comprehension and conversational Hebrew.

Advanced with Dorit Gryn 12 sessions Begins Wednesday, Jan. 4 9:45-11:00am Intermediate with Dorit Gryn 12 sessions Begins Wednesday, Jan. 4 11:00am-12:15pm Advanced Beginner with Dorit Gryn 11 sessions Begins Thursday, Jan. 5 9:30-10:30am Intermediate with Liat Chanoch 10 sessions Begins Monday, Jan. 9 12:15-1:30pm Beginner+ with Liat Chanoch 10 sessions Begins Tuesday, Jan. 24 12:30-1:45pm Beginner with Liat Chanoch 10 sessions Begins Monday, Jan. 23 7:30-8:45pm For more information, visit www.sjjcc.org/jll

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Glenwood Management is headquartered at this building on Union Turnpike in New Hyde Park.

North Shore firms fined for illegal lobbying Continued from Page 1 of the state’s most powerful legislators, whose immense political influence could help or hurt the businesses.

“The lawmakers who sought to use their official positions to secure unwarranted privileges have already been punished; the clients of lobbyists who facilitated these acts and provided those public officers with such special benefits are now facing the consequences of their actions,” Seth H. Agata, the commission’s executive director, said in a statement Thursday.

Glenwood’s and Administrators for the Professions’ businesses depend on state real estate and medical malpractice insurance policy, respectively.

The two companies played central roles in the federal trials against Silver and Skelos, who were both convicted in 2015, along with Skelos’ son,

Adam. All three are appealing their multiyear prison sentences.

The commission reached the agreements with the cooperation of the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which prosecuted Silver and Skelos.

Attorneys for Glenwood and Gerald Dolman, president of Administrators for the Professions, did not return phone calls seeking further comment.

Glenwood, a major New York City real estate developer based at 1200 Union Turnpike in New Hyde Park, failed to disclose meetings with Dean Skelos on its annual state lobbying reports and acknowledged to the ethics commission that it got Adam Skelos a consulting job with an environmental technology company, according to the settlement.

It was revealed in the Skeloses’ trial that Adam Skelos used that position to get such

a company, AbTech Industries, a $12 million Nassau County contract.

Glenwood also employed, at Silver’s request, a property tax appeal law firm that paid Silver hundreds of thousands of dollars in referral fees for no actual legal work, the ethics commission said.

Administrators for the Professions, the operations arm of Physicians Reciprocal Insurance, based at 1800 Northern Blvd. in Roslyn, admitted it gave Adam Skelos a no-show job paying $75,000 a year with health benefits as it lobbied Dean Skelos, the company’s settlement says.

The firm kept Adam Skelos on as a $3,000-a-month consultant even after company officials told his father he was doing no work, the agreement says.

During the Skeloses’ trial, Chris Curcio, Adam Skelos’ boss at Physicians Reciprocal,

reportedly testified that when he confronted Skelos about his absence from the job, Skelos said, “Guys like you couldn’t shine my shoes. You’ll never amount to anything ... And if you ever talk to me like that again, I’ll smash your [expletive] head in.”

Glenwood’s $200,000 fine is paltry compared to the amount the firm spends on lobbying and political contributions.

The firm, its subsidiary limited-liability companies and Leonard Litwin, its principal, have given millions of dollars to statewide candidates from both parties.

Glenwood spent more than $839,000 between January 2015 and July 2016, according to disclosure reports filed with the ethics commission.

Administrators for the Professions spent $103,000 on lobbying in that same period.

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Wage hike draws praise, anxiety

BY M A X Z A H N A minimum wage hike raising the base pay in Nassau County to $10 per hour went into effect on Sunday, eliciting responses ranging from anxiety to exaltation among small-business owners and worker advocates on the North Shore.

“It’s a good thing for workers,” said Richard Koubek, the community outreach coordinator for Long Island Workers With Justice, an advocacy group.

“It will tend to bump wages in the job classifications above the minimum, and that’s a good thing for the local economy.”

Philip Hershkowitz, the owner of a luxury gift store in Roslyn called Imperial China, disagreed.

“The labor force will definitely be hurt by this,” he said.

Small-business owners “will cut labor by getting rid of somebody and paying somebody middle class wages to do the job of two people,” he added.

Koubek said he hasn’t “seen evidence that when the minimum wage is raised there’s a rise in unemployment.”

“Despite the gloom and doom from small businesses that

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for the passage of a minimum wage hike last year. It’s increase of the base pay in Nassau County to $10 per hour went into effect on Sunday. the sky is going to fall on them, it doesn’t happen,” he added.

Hershkowitz predicted that proprietors will raise prices for their goods to offset the additional labor costs.

“It’s very expensive to live here in Long Island. Imagine

what it will be when these costs go into effect,” he said.

Barbara Kaplan, who runs a Roslyn-based expo planning company called Specialty Connections, shared Hershkowitz’s concern about prices.

“Logic dictates that prices

will rise, particularly in businesses that rely on inexpensive labor, such as restaurants and service-oriented businesses — retail stores, dry cleaners, bowling alleys,” she said.

Koubek said the high cost of living in Long Island is a reason

to raise the minimum wage even higher.

He would like to see the minimum wage in Nassau raised immediately to $15 per hour.

The law passed by the state Legislature last April mandates subsequent incremental increases of $1 per year in Nassau until the minimum wage reaches $15 per hour on Dec. 31, 2021. “$15 per hour would be 30,000 per year, which is above the poverty line. But in [the Long Island] area a family of four would need 80,000 per year to cover expenses. So $15 per hour is a good base,” Koubek said.

“Raising the minimum wage puts money into the local economy because poor people put money into local businesses,” he added.

C.J. Coleman, the former president of the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce, said the Plandome road businesses he is familiar with are not concerned about the wage hike.

“From my conversations with merchants I know, none have a problem with it,” he said.

“Six months from now, I might end up getting a different response.”

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2016: A year of columns in review In 2016 I wrote 52 columns, one per week. Here are the top seven highlights: 1. Donald Trump can teach every small business owner on Long Island two important things.

Firstly, he knows how to brand himself like no one else on earth.

He constantly uses words like ‘the greatest’, ‘the best’, ‘the most beautiful’.

This is the use of hyperbole and branding at its most audacious.

Secondly, his astute use of social media got him elected.

By using his Twitter account with its limit to 140 characters he overcame the nation’s short attention span and got his message across.

So if you own a small business on Long Island and want to become more successful in 2017 learn from Donald Trump. Start branding yourself and start using social media.

2. One of the high points of this year for me was when I met and interviewed Jan Friedman.

He has written Star Trek episodes and when I asked him to look up at the little antique doll Henry Hildebrandt on the high wire above the dining room he instantly came up with an amazing, magical and heartfelt story

entitled ‘The Tired Magician.”

You can criticize and demean television all you want but when you get to meet a TV writer you learn just how smart they actually are.

3. Art is a God send to every community yet the arts always seem to struggle. I think this is because TV is so convenient.

This year the Herricks Community Theater put on “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” It was a delight and I bet each of the many actors and crew involved loved every minute of their work.

I also got to know about the Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck which contributes to community life of the North Shore in Great Neck.

Under the leadership of Regina Gil the center provides workshops and classes in the visual arts, theater, cartooning, dance, music, film festivals and more.

Participation in the arts are a deliverance of pure goodness to every soul that partakes of it.

4. Politicians are smarter then you realize.

As a psychoanalyst I am observant and able to make accurate judgements very quickly. That’s my business and something I’ve done 10 hours a day, five days a week

DR. TOM FERRARO Our Town for the last 35 years.

So when I sat with Mike Balboni for his interview I immediately realized that this guy was very smart and very likable.

The last time I experienced such a dazzling impression of charisma in the flesh was when I met Tiger Woods.

Mike Balboni is a lawyer, former state senator and currently runs RedLand Strategies. It is funny how cynicism can be converted into respect when you actually meet these guys up close and personal.

5. Long Island got lucky this past summer when the Barclays came to Bethpage Black and brought to Long Island all the PGA superstars.

I met Zach Johnson at a party.

I didn’t have to go to London to be amazed. I was amazed right here in Nassau County in 2016.

He looks kind of funny when you see him on TV but in person he looks like Robert Pattinson the actor in the Twilight Saga film series.

Then I got to meet and watch Rory McIlroy play golf at a private club. Here again on TV he looks like he can play pretty good golf but when I actually saw him play golf in person on a course I know very well it blew my mind.

Rory McIlroy is the next Tiger Woods. And thanks to my beautiful niece I got to meet Action Bronson.

Action Bronson, for those of you over the age of 18, is a superstar rapper on the level of Snoop Dogg. If you gaze upon one of his utube videos you will see an overweight bearded unkempt white guy.

No surprise here. We all know that rappers are drug crazed lunatics.

But when I met him he was having a power lunch in a very posh Manhattan restaurant with a movie director, his manager and Jonah Hill the actor.

The moral of all this is that superstars are all hard working, smart, talented and actually very kind when you meet them.

6. This year I wrote about floatation therapy, yoga, pilates and meditation.

All these methodologies are prospering for one simple reason.

We are now living in a world that is too fast, too new, too electronic and too overwhelming.

We are all in desperate need of sanctuaries of calmness. This is one reason people come to therapy or play golf or do yoga.

7. Two weeks ago I wrote about meeting Santa Claus. I asked him how to find spirituality during the holidays. He pointed to a Christmas tree and told me to ask the tree.

The outline of my little Christmas tale was based upon “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.

I offer you that information for one reason. If you want to find a bit of happiness, magic or spirituality you can do no better than to get into the habit of reading the literary masterpieces. I am currently on page 1,032 of “Les Miserable”

by Victor Hugo.

If you want an antidote to secular materialism and need some magical spirituality I recommend you start by reading the great books.

That is the best thing you could do for yourself in 2017. And it won’t cost you a penny. Just stroll down to the local library and show them your card.

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City 2,765 4,287 45.6 2 85,329 73,075

County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286

143 Round Hill Road, Roslyn Heights Sold Price: $1,200,000 Date: 12/02/2016 5 beds, 4 Full baths Style: Farm Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 88x118 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $20,160 MLS# 2871542

9 Elliot Place, Roslyn Heights Sold Price: $705,000 Date: 11/18/2016 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Hi Ranch # of Families:1 Lot Size: 0.12 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $17,825 MLS# 2874914

76 Great Oaks Road, East Hills 288 Birch Drive, Roslyn Sold Price: $940,000 Date: 12/02/2016 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Splanch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 76x111 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $17,000 MLS# 2872942

Sold Price: $880,000 Date: 09/23/2016 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 116x116 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $19,228 MLS# 2860716

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Publicans to reopen its doors this month Continued from Page 22 Andy Thorne, the assistant general manager. A focus on American wines will feature those from vineyards on the North Fork and in the Finger Lakes region, Heil said.

Though it will offer a wide selection of alcoholic beverages, Publicans intends to be a family-friendly restaurant.

The bar’s 11 televisions will show sports year-round.

“We’re definitely big sports fans,” Heil said. “Publicans was famous for its horse racing fans back in the day. The Triple Crown will be featured prominently.”

Heil said he had spoken at length with Moehringer about the reopening.

“He’s thrilled to see Publicans come back to life,” Heil said.

The Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer is currently in Sag Harbor at work on his next novel, Heil said.

Asked if Moehringer would ever visit the bar, Heil said “if his schedule allows.”

“He’s definitely getting a VIP invite,” he added.

1. Chairs wait to be set up at Publicans, which will reopen in late January. 2. Members of the Publicans staff stand outside the bar. (From l to r) Mike King, general manager; Rich Schoenacher, executive chef; Andy Thorne, assistant general manager.

Students sing for Hannukah Continued from Page 12 “We believe that there is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law,” Chanie Geisinsky said. “We make sure that our kids know both.”

“The way we do holidays in school is that it’s all relevant and meaningful, it’s not just learning laws,” she added.

“What could be more relevant than singing about the holiday in public?”

The student choir, Chanie Geisinsky said, does not specifically prepare to sing holiday songs, but the academy incorporates elements of song and dance throughout the school year.

The celebration also featured chocolate coins being tossed to the children from

a cherry picker provided by Great Neckbased Santelli & Sons Landscape Design.

Many local elected officials attended the celebration and menorah lighting, including North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, North Hempstead Councilwoman Lee Seeman, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, Nassau County Legislator Ellen Birnbaum, Village of Great Neck Mayor Pedram Bral, Great Neck Park District Superintendent Jason Marra and park district Commissioner Frank Cilluffo.

Bosworth said it was “wonderful” to attend the ceremony and celebrate the Jewish holiday.

“The rain stopped, the stars came

out and we’re here to celebrate together,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll celebrate for many years to come right here.”

Joseph Geisinsky said the menorah is representative of “an entire nation.”

Although each candle is lit differently by each person, he said, everyone “belongs to the same menorah.”

“We should all share that light together,” he said. “The more we share strength, happiness and joy, the more we support each other with unity and will be able to strengthen our people and make this country a better place.”

Gardens New top cop in 3rd toasts the holidays H Continued from Page 2 being realized. Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter defended the move, saying it saved the county millions of dollars without sacrificing any patrols.

Continued from Page 4 visitors in 2016, of whom 2,700 came in December, Costopulos said.

The mansion has held Christmas events for at least the last 20 years.

“And it’s likely longer than that,” Costopulos said.

But she and the Gardens are not resting on their Christmas laurels.

“We’re thinking about extending our holiday season next year so folks can come over Thanksgiving weekend,” Costopulos said. “It’s a nice time for people to get started with the holidays.”

“ E’S BEEN A GOOD ALLY AND HAS LISTENED TO THE COMMUNITY AS BEST AS HIS RESOURCES IN THE PRECINCT ARE ABLE TO, AND WE JUST WISH HIM WELL IN HIS NEW ROLE. — RICHARD BENTLEY

Berry said he understood why residents would want their home precinct reopened, but noted that the former 6th Precinct building in Manhasset has re-

mained open as a community policing center staffed by two officers.

“If I run two precincts or one precinct, it’s up to them [the county],” Berry said. “I just try to do the best job I can.”

Turnover in the 3rd Precinct’s leadership has not been unusual given the regular shifts in police department staffing, Richard Bentley, president of the Greater Manhasset Council of Civic Associations, said.

Bentley praised Berry for his responsiveness to concerns about police service and his quick answers to requests or questions from civic leaders.

“He’s been a good ally and has listened to the community as best as his resources in the precinct are able to, and we just wish him well in his new role,” Bentley said.

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Community Meetings Bryant Library Board of Trustees Re-Organizational Meeting

Village of Lake Success Board of Trustees Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

2 Paper Mill Road, Roslyn 516-621-2240

Monday, January 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success 516-482-4411

Village of East Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills 516-621-5600 Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Meeting

Thursday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hal 318 Lakeville Road, Lake Success 516-482-4411 Manhasset Civic Association Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Town Hall 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset

Floral Park Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Village of Manorhaven Board of Trustees Work Session/Regular Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

17 Caroline Place, Floral Park 516-326-6330

Thursday, January 12 @ 6:00 p.m./7:00 p.m.

Village Hall 33 Manorhaven Boulevard Port Washington 516-883-7000

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 1 Bonnie Heights Road, Manhasset 516-627-5000

Village of Mineola Board of Trustees Meeting

Village of Great Neck Architectural Review Board Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall 155 Washington Avenue, Mineola 516-746-0750

Tuesday, January 10 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 61 Baker Hill Road, Great Neck 516-482-0019

Mineola School District Board of Education Business Meeting

Village of Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 7:45 p.m.

Village Hall Atwater Plaza/4 Gateway Drive, Great Neck 516-482-8283 Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 8:00 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Gussack Plaza, Great Neck 516-482-4500 Great Neck School District Board of Education Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 8:30 p.m.

Parkville School 10 Campbell Street, New Hyde Park 516-441-4300 Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting

Thursday, January 12 @ 8:30 a.m.

District Office 236 E Shore Rd, Great Neck (516) 482-0238 Hillside Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Thursday, January 12 @ 7:30 p.m.

155 Lakeville Road, New Hyde Park 516-355-7850

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Village of Lake Success Planning Meeting

Tuesday, January 10 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 2 Prospect Street, East Williston 516-746-0782

Village of Flower Hill Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting

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Thursday, January 12 @ 7:00 p.m.

Willis Avenue School 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola 516-237-2000 Village of Munsey Park Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1777 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset 516-365-7790 Village of Munsey Park Board Advisory Committee Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall 1777 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset 516-365-7790 New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District Budget Workshop/ Regular Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 7:30 p.m./8:00 p.m.

Garden City Park School 51 Central Avenue, Garden City Park 516-434-2300 Village of New Hyde Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

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Village of Plandome Heights Board of Trustees Meeting

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Schreiber High School 101 Campus Drive, Port Washington (516) 767-5805 Village of Roslyn Estates Board of Trustees Meeting

Monday, January 9 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 25 The Tulips, Roslyn Estates 516-621-3541 Village of Roslyn Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting

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Village Hall, 1200 Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn 516-621-1961 Shelter Rock Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Wednesday, January 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 165 Searingtown Road, Albertson 516-248-7363 Town of North Hempstead Town Board/Solid Waste Management Authority Budget Adoption Meeting

Tuesday, January 10 @ 7:00 p.m.

North Hempstead Town Hall 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset 516-869-6311 Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees Budget Meeting

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Village Hall, 100 East Shore Road, Great Neck 516-482-3110 Williston Park Public Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Tuesday, January 10 @ 7:00 p.m.

494 Willis Avenue, Williston Park 516-742-1820 Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted. All meetings, dates and times are subject to change.

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BUYER’S GUIDE ▼ ANTIQUES

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BUYER’S GUIDE ▼ HOME IMPROVEMENT

Elegant Touch Remodeling “Quality Construction with a Personal Touch” Deal direct with owner - Serving li over 25 years

• • • •

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ACT loses 53 exams Continued from Page 1 A total of 258 students took the exam at Roslyn High School on Oct. 22, the district said.

The missing score sheets belonged to students who did not choose to complete the ACT’s optional 40-minute writing section, Newsday reported.

Affected students and their parents have expressed frustration over the mishap, and disbelief about the effectiveness of the remedy.

Cameron Sherry, a senior at Chaminade High School in Mineola, applied to colleges under early action programs, which often have November deadlines. The deadlines for her remaining regular decision applications are in early January, she told Newsday.

“I studied countless hours for the exam. I had a tutor for it, and I had to juggle that with my regular academic work and athletic life,” she told Newsday. “I have to make a decision to try to cram in two weeks of studying, right before the test, which is not enough time.”

DeSousa said the ACT realized the scores were missing in the week before announcing the retest.

She could not determine whether both the original test scores and the retest scores would be considered

valid if the score sheets are discovered after the Jan. 14 retest.

In addition to offering the retest free of charge, the ACT will reimburse the cost of the October test, the ACT said in a statement.

Russians leave mansion Continued from Page 3 Security Council resolution calling on China to withdraw troops from Korea.

With the Russians gone, Freeport-based Dover Group Hospitality Corp. said it plans to bid on the property and turn it into a catering hall with a golf course and tennis courts, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.

Dover Group also owns catering halls such as Jericho’s Milleridge Inn and Baldwin’s Coral House.

Russia purportedly used the houses as retreats for its diplomats, but U.S. officials reportedly believe it may have been used for intelligence-gathering.

Both properties are less than 10 miles from the former Roslyn Air National Guard Station, now the Park at East Hills.

It’s been rumored that the U.S.

military used the base to spy on the Russian compounds. But Skip Hein, a retired airman who oversaw the communications systems at the station from 1965 to 1986, said it was not used for such surveillance.

“If anything, they [the Russians] may have tried to find out what we were doing,” Hein said.

The Soviets bought Glen Cove’s Killenworth in 1951. Built in 1912 on a property larger than 30 acres, it was the home of George duPont Pratt, son of the Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt.

Spinello has never visited the property and does not know what goes on inside, he said.

While residents generally know of its existence, Russian officials rarely used the Glen Cove mansion in recent years, and the caretakers who lived there generally stayed “under the radar,” Spinello said.

“There’s certainly nothing adversarial,” he said. “They’re good residents. They respect everything that the city has — our facilities, the parking laws, everything else.”

There were disputes with the city in the 1970s and ’80s over whether the property should be tax exempt and whether the officials staying there could use city beaches and parks, according to news reports from the time.

When the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the estate in 1960, residents lined the streets and threw fruit at his car, Spinello said.

Hein, who went to high school in Glen Cove, said the YMCA next to the mansion was careful about letting kids go near the fence along the mansion’s lot, thinking it was electrified.

The city’s youth were “always aware to stay away,” Hein said.

Village to decide on grocery Continued from Page 2 Belziti sent a letter to Gavin Racz on Sept. 15 saying the store could not sell prepared foods, even if they were made off-site.

He stands by the decision.

“My take on it is exactly how I prepared my disapproval,” he said, referring to the letter. “My take on it may not be their take on it.”

The storeowners are appealing

the decision.

The Board of Zoning Appeals convened a hearing about Full House Organic’s special use permit on Dec. 30 but the proceeding was cut short due to an expletive uttered

by Gavin Racz. He said he will attend the meeting on Monday.

If the decision does not go in Full House Organic’s favor, Racz said he may sue the village.

“I’m investing hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he said. “I mean, what else can I do at that point?”

“We were granted a permit for grocery store and they’re not allowing us to operate as grocery store,” he added. “A grocery store anywhere in world can sell a sandwich.”

Attempts to reach Roslyn Mayor John Durkin were unavailing.

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Sports North boys make semis in volleyball

BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI The Great Neck North boy’s varsity volleyball team finished their 2016 season in which they came up short against Bellmore JFK in the Class B semi-finals of the Nassau County Tournament on Nov. 8.

But head coach Tom Mangan was upbeat, saying this season marks the first time the team has reached the semifinals in program history.

“We made it to the quarterfinals in four of the past five years, but this year we had a breakthrough,” Mangan said. “We were a very young team. Our starting

lineup was filled with juniors and only one returning starter.”

Mangan said the boys overcame a slow start to the campaign and played better down the stretch.

One of the keys to their season’s turnaround was the call-up of sophomore Tim Lee, according to Mangan.

Mangan said Lee was promoted from the junior varsity team and anchored the varsity team’s back row as the libero, proving to be a real difference maker.

Other players who contributed to Great Neck North’s success were All Conference players senior Oliver Hajibay, senior

The Great Neck North boy’s varsity volleyball team

Seena Talasazan, and junior Eric Shirian, as well as junior Eliot Kadouri, who was named to the County Play-offs All-Tournament team.

In the postseason, Great Neck North defeated 12th seeded Clarke in the first round in four sets on Nov. 3. They dropped the first set and won the next three to advance to the quarterfinals.

Two days later, Great Neck North beat fourth seeded Mepham in four games to move on to the semifinals.

These two teams split one match apiece in the regular season and it was Great Neck North who came out on top in the quarterfinal game.

In the semifinals, Great Neck North faced off against top seeded Bellmore JFK, who swept them twice in the regular season.

Bellmore JFK got the best of them once again, ending Great Neck North’s run in five sets.

Mangan said the team played great in their semifinal game but couldn’t seal the deal to get to the finals.

But, he said, they will look to use this run as inspiration for next season.

“We were the fifth seed and lost to the first seed and defending County champ in five sets,” Mangan said. “In fact, we won two of the first three sets and went up 21-20 in the fourth set, but just couldn’t hang on. That said, we bring back a good core group of players, so hopefully we can build on our success!”

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Seeking a return to winning ways

BY T H OM A S GILLEN Halfway through its 201617 season, the LIU Post women’s basketball team stands at 6-7, with seven games remaining at home.

Despite the record, the Pioneers are 3-1 in the conference.

Head women’s basketball coach Deirdre Moore is not deterred, stating that the team is “a joy to coach.

Every player has a great attitude and the whole team plays as a cohesive unit. They truly exemplify what it means to be a team.”

Moore said she wants to see them continue to improve every day and would ultimately like to return to the East Coast Conference Championship.

The Pioneers last played in the championship during the 2014-15 season, but lost to New York Institute of Technology, 76-71, in the first game.

This year’s team is “almost like a whole new team,” Moore said. “This year we have five freshmen and two transfers who have made all of our play-

ers better,” she added.

One of the new additions to the team is freshmen health science major Mikaiya Moore.

Moore is the Pioneers’ leading scorer, with 175 points through 12 games.

She also leads the team with 40 free throws, 48 defensive rebounds, 17 blocks, and scores an average of 14.6 points a game.

“The most important thing I’ve learned so far is that everything you do in the game matters,” Moore said about her first season playing college basketball.

Moore played varsity high school basketball at Copaigue High School, where she was named 2016 League III Player of the Year, scoring 1,500 points over her career.

During her first semester at LIU Post, Moore has managed to improve her defensive skills and post moves. She’s also learned how important it is to keep moving on the court due to the fast nature of the game.

Senior broadcasting major Kylie Garrett is also having a good season, with 124 points

so far.

After beating Stonehill College 82-70 on Saturday, Dec. 31, the Pioneers will play their next five games against teams in their own conference, including Queens College, Molloy College, and the University of Bridgeport.

“I’m always looking forward to the next game,” Moore said. “The game against Roberts Wesleyan College will be a good measuring stick for our team because we play in the same conference.”

The team’s next game is on Wednesday, Jan. 4 against the University of the District of Columbia in Washington D.C. at 7 p.m. The team returns to campus on Saturday, Jan. 7 to play Roberts Wesleyan College at 1:30 p.m. at the Pratt Recreation Center in Brookville.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, LIU Post’s award-winning student newspaper, www.liupostpioneer.com. The article is republished by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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